#reine ⚢

[paullorenz]

Winter light, Chicago, 01-20-24

[ruched]

The “Think Pink” musical number from Funny Face (1957)

Costume design by Edith Head

[thinkingthinking]

[notsosecretlyalesbian]

Glória Pires as Lota de Macedo Soares and Miranda Otto as Elizabeth Bishop in Reaching for the Moon (2013) dir. Bruno Barreto

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident the art of losing’s not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

[charliejaneanders]

Random writing thought: the best stories are often the ones that only you could have written — but also the ones that you could only write at this one moment.

I couldn't write All the Birds in the Sky from scratch now if I tried. But the me of 2013 couldn't have written The Prodigal Mother either.

[neil-gaiman]

When people ask if I'd change anything about a book I've already written, I want to explain to them that I'm not the person who wrote that book any longer, and even if I tried right now I'd write a different one. Everything you make as a writer* is a combination of what you want to say and who you are at the time you are telling that story.

*possibly also as an artist or as a human being

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf, from A Room of One's Own

[kar-amela]

[twicedailyquotes]

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I’ve told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.”

—

Janet Finch

White Oleander

[tytiffanyblue]

[talonabraxas]

Uwe Henneken (German, b. 1974), A teaching in transfiguration

[margotton-blog]

[yama-bato]

“Si tu sais d'où tu viens, il n'y a pas de limite à là où tu peux aller.”

—

La prochaine fois, le feu, James Baldwin

(via angelinilorca)

[classicfilmsource]

Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde 1967 dir. Arthur Penn

[10chickenwings]

Jacques Grüber - stained glassed door at the Musée de l’École de Nancy

[japaneseaesthetics]

Crow and Willow Tree, by Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1887

[nightlyquotes]

“I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.”

— Margaret Atwood

[imaginariumarte-101]