the dickinsonian

benjamin dickinson, director

[intellectualpoaching]

Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (via intellectualpoaching)

[myszko]

Agnes Martin

[emmypoosayscocaine]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Yes, we have lost track of the light, the mornings, the holy innocence of those who forgive themselves.

Albert Camus, from The Fall (Vintage Books, 1957)

[brianmayisagoonie]

[theshinysquirrel]

[jlartey]

[june-west]

[eoreu]

[talesofpassingtime]

The whole of New York should have been one vast ghetto: the poison should have been drained off, the misery apportioned; the joy should have been communicated through every vein and artery.

Henry Miller, Sexus  

(via talesofpassingtime)

[themotherofrevelation]

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

Joseph Campbell (via themotherofrevelation)

[kwesiabbensettsgallery]

Super Powers, 2016

#kwesiabbensetts

[twentysplenty]

[kidmograph]

SVBDIVIDED

IG version

[creativecontrolmovie-blog]

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[theclassicsreader]

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one’s nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one’s nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one’s robes.

James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 (via theclassicsreader)

[manundertheinfluence]

IRVING PENN Five Dahomey Girls, Two Standing, 1967 Platinum palladium print