"Always to live among words, whether one wants to or not,
always to be alive, full of words about life,
as if words were alive, as if life meant words."
Ingeborg Bachmann, from “[Always to live among words]”, translated by Peter Filkins (thank you, awritersruminations)
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"Why do poets, generation after generation, time out of mind, repeat: The sea is beautiful; women are beautiful; the sun is beautiful? Because for each man it is new? No. Because for all men it is old. Because the loveliness, the poetry, is in the commonness, the recognition. Because it is the love, the wonder, that is poetry and not the object of the love or wonder. Generation after generation poetry has kept this record of the hearts of men."
Archibald Macleish, “In Challenge Not Defense” (via litverve)
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Oftentimes I just don’t care, indifference to things, to certain people, to wayward ideals and to the normalcy of norms have enveloped my being since birth and yet the few things I hold dear to heart become fixations, passions which invigorate and enlighten my life, a lighthouse whose light shapes the sight of the seas of the future….

In fact, he behaved like a king who accidentally switched lives with an identical pauper
-Glenn O’Brien on Basquiat

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else
CS Lewis

Cowards will get rid of you.
-Basquiat

"If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine of them would be blank. On the last page I would write, “I recognize only one duty and that is to love.” And as far as everything else is concerned, I say no."
Albert Camus  (via human-voices)

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thestriversrow: “She believed in the impossible, and for that reason, won a battle, that everyone considered to be lost”

thestriversrow:

“She believed in the impossible, and for that reason, won a battle, that everyone considered to be lost”

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royaltorch: billiesbluesday: Romare Bearden | Express  Learned about him in the, I believe, 3rd grade. :) There are some huge works of his on the 5th floor of the jazz Lincoln Center! Magnificant!

royaltorch:

billiesbluesday:

Romare Bearden | Express 

Learned about him in the, I believe, 3rd grade. :)

There are some huge works of his on the 5th floor of the jazz Lincoln Center! Magnificant!

"I’m writing again and I feel my force glow straight from me at its fullest. I’m better company, more of a human being."
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 19 June 1924. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)