“It is a great art: to love and keep still.”
—
Anna Kamienska, from a diary entry featured in “In That Great River: A Notebook,”
(via violentwavesofemotion)
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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 Reveur (via be-happy-and-enjoy-the-life)
The argument that capitalism lets you freely express yourself as an individual is hilarious…and it’s debunked by the people who argue it.
“Hey, I’d like to pursue art and philosophy.”
“Heh, this loser is gonna end up poor.”
Acceptable expression of yourself as an individual must be profitable. The fact that doing what you love will leave you struggling in life is miserable and a direct result of capitalism.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso (via quotemadness)
“I am entirely and for ever my own mistress.”
— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. July 1940 featured in “Diaries,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
“And at night, always, / a tribe of mutilated words / looks for refuge in my throat.”
— Alejandra Pizarnik, in an excerpt from Rings of Ash, featured in Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems, 1962-1972
— If only I could plunge my mind into the delights of pure imagination,
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. May 1929, featured in “Selected Diaries,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
I have wrung my hands and cried over no love all winter long.
Anne Sexton - from a letter to James Dickey featured in Anne Sexton: A Biography
“November won’t let go of me,”
— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947
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