“When people fall in love with love they fling themselves in the abyss.”
— Marina Tsvetaeva, from “As people listen intently” featured in Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems
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“I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body, literature… All of this is art to me.”
— Hunter Reveu
“Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle and the way your tongue curved up to the long, lingering ‘l.’ Our life together was alliterative, and when I think of all the little things which will die, now that we cannot share them, I feel as if we were dead too.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (via palelimbs)
“When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.”
— Osho (via quotemadness)
“Meanwhile, your life and my life have kissed.”
— Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems; “Night of Love In Three Cantos,”
(via violentwavesofemotion)
Things can turn out differently to how you imagined but still be incredible and fulfilling. Don’t let the idea of what you thought your life should be ruin the life you’re living.
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
Stephen King (via quotemadness)
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
— Rumi
(via goodreadss)
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”
— Jean-Michel Basquiat (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)
