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I have never thought that painting a picture has anything to do with self-expression. It is a communication about the world to someone else (…) All teaching about self-expression is erroneous in art; it has to do with therapy.

—Mark Rothko, Conversations with Artists

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Carlo Scarpa, Conchiglie glass vase, 1943.

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“I love poetry for numerous reasons, but one very essential reason is that poetry is the only creative writing art form that builds breath into it. It makes you breathe. It not only allows for silence, it demands it. We enter the poem with our own breath.”

— Ada Limón, interviewed by Lauren LeBlanc for BOMB Magazine (via bostonpoetryslam)

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Milena Bonilla, Noises, 2007

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“Being alone is a difficult discipline: a beautiful and difficult sense of being solitary is always the ground from which we step into a contemplative intimacy with the unknown, but the first portal of alone is often experienced as a gateway to alienation, grief, and abandonment […]. To be alone for any length of time is to shed an outer skin. The body is inhabited in a different way when we are alone than when we are with others. Alone, we live in our bodies as a question rather than a statement.”

— David Whyte, from “Alone,” Consolations (Many Rivers Press, 2021)