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Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · Mar 16
So you should taste the filtered light
and work your way toward wisdom
with no personal covering.
That’s how you came here, like a star
without a name. Move across the night sky
with those anonymous lights.
-Rumí #booksky #poem

Egon Schiele #art #painting #oilpainting
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Dostoyevsky #booksky #author #quote

Erica Mahinay #art #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting #artist
December 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.
Ellen Bass #poetry #booksky #quotes #poem

Francisco Goya #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #blackpaintings
December 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.
Ernest Hemingway #quote #booksky #author

Olaf Hayek #art #oilpainting #contemporaryart #illustration #painting #artist
December 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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believe us, they say,
it is a serious thing

just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
-Mary Oliver #poem #poetry #booksky

Karen Kilimnik #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #acrylicpainting
December 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner #booksky #quotes

Lilly Fenichel #oilpainting #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart
December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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How should we like it were stars to burn with a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.
-W.H. Auden #quote #booksky #poetry

Sean Cairns #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting
December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
[…]
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.
Rabindranath Tagore #poetry #quote #booksky

Heath Wae #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
William Wordsworth #poetry #spring #booksky #author

Lynne Drexler #painting #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting
December 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
Alexandre Dumas #author #booksky #quote

Eleonora Rinaldi #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Rainer Maria Rilke #booksky #quote #poetry

Caroline Walker #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpaint
December 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
WB Yeats #poetry #quote #writing #author #booksky

Samantha Joy Groff #art #contemporaryart #artist #oilpainting
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. {…} At present you need to live the question.
Rainer Maria Rilke #booksky #quotes

Colleen Herman #art #artist #painting #oilpaint
December 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
John Steinbeck #booksky #quotes #author

Tessa Greene O’Brien @tessagreeneobrien.bsky.social #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I have realized that the moon
did not have to be full for us to love it.
That we are not tragedies
stranded here beneath it.
Buddy Wakefield #boosky #poetry #quotes

Hannah Hoch #art #artist #dada #collage #montage
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
Vladimir Nabokov #booksky #author #quote

Sophia Loeb #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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be softer with you.
you are a breathing thing.
a memory to someone.
a home to a life.
Nayyirah Waheed #booksky #poetry #quotes

Michele Fletcher #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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He questioned softly why I failed?
“For beauty,” I replied.
“And I for truth,—the two are one;
We brethren are,” he said.

And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips
-Emily Dickinson #booksky #poetry

Mary Ramsden #art #artist #contemporaryart
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald #booksky #author #quote #TheGreatGatsby

Masanori Tomita #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Thou art a dreaming thing,
A fever of thyself.
Keats #booksky #quote #poetry

Iris Yehong Mao #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.
Zora Neale Hurston #booksky #author #quote

Katherine Bradford #art #contemporaryart #painting #artist
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
Anne Sexton #poet #booksky #poetry

Patricia Iglesias Peco #art #artist #abstractart #contemporaryart #painting
November 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I used to do this, the self I was
used to do this

the selves I no longer am
nor understand.
{…}
about loving someone
then walk away, coolly

I’m not ashamed
Love is large and monstrous
Maggie Nelson #booksky #poetry #quotes

Birgit Fechner #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed. & remember, loneliness is still time spent
with the world.
-Ocean Vuong #booksky #poetry #quotes

-Colin Brant #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
W.S. Merwin #booksky #quote #poetry

Albert Oehlen #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
Vladimir Nabokov #booksky #author #writing

Danijela Knezevic #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM