[mydarkenedeyes]

[mapycbkass]

Spencer Finch - 366, Emily Dickinson’s Miraculous Year (2009)

This work is based on Emily Dickinson in 1862, when she wrote 366 poems in 365 days. It is a real-time memorial to that year, which burns for exactly one year. The sculpture is comprised of 366 individual candles arranged in a linear sequence, each of which burns for 24 hours. The colour of each candle matches a colour mentioned in the corresponding poem. For the poems in which no colour is mentioned, the candles are made out of natural paraffin.

[eleganceinquestion]

Destroying nature is destroying life - by Robin Wood

[noctipotent]

“It’s like autumn arriving. You expect nothing from its arrival. You expect everything.”

— Alejandra Pizarnik, from Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 (tr. Yvette Siegert)

[eleganceinquestion]

“... have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke’s advice to a young poet

[quotexcerpts]

“Don’t think. It complicates things. Just feel, and if it feels like home, then follow its path.”

— R.M. Drake

[books-n-quotes]

“…Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (via books-n-quotes)

[womansart]

Early character illustrations depicting scenes from the first book in the series, ‘Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone’ by the author herself, J.K. Rowling

[eleganceinquestion]

Who the heck is Gary??

[books-n-quotes]

“I hope you get where you’re going, and be happy when you do.”

— Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via books-n-quotes)

[books-n-quotes]

“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via books-n-quotes)

[artbeautypaintings]

[books-n-quotes]

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”

— Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale (via books-n-quotes)

[books-n-quotes]

“There is a beauty in the world, though it’s harsher than we expect it to be.”

— Michael Cunningham, The Hours (via books-n-quotes)

[aseaofquotes]

H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

[lifeinpoetry]

“it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.”

— Mary Oliver, from “Invitation,” Red Bird: Poems

[mosagram]

“One of these days I’m going to pull myself together for a while and think - try to determine what character of a woman I am, for, candidly, I don’t know.”

— Kate Chopin, from “The Awakening”

[vincentvangogh-art]

Road with Cypresses 1890

Vincent van Gogh

[nevver]

Threads in time, Natalie Ciccoricco (because)