We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

[lifeinpoetry]

We build lanterns. We plant seeds. We set things alight.

Jeannine Hall Gailey, from “A Morning of Sunflowers (for Fukushima),” The Robot Scientist’s Daughter (via lifeinpoetry)

[mecene-deactivated20110813]

[viperslang]

To love is to undress our names.

Octavio Paz, from “Sunstone” (via viperslang)

[renaissance-art]

Renaissance Art A-Z

O: Abraham Ortelius 

[geographyofthesoul]

Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers 

[geographyofthesoul]

Wassily Kandinsky, Composition IV

[geographyofthesoul]

I believe deeply in ordered chaos.

Francis Bacon 

[introspectivepoet]

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (via ontheedgeofdarkness)

[observando]

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Annie Dillard (via observando)

[geographyofthesoul]

Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.

Jeanette Winterson, excerpt from The Passion 

[geographyofthesoul]

I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?

Haruki Murakami, excerpt from Norwegian Wood 

[geographyofthesoul]

Kara Walker, Grub for Sharks: A Concession to the Negro Populace 

[geographyofthesoul]

Wilhelm, what is the world to our hearts without love? What is a magic lantern without light? You have but to kindle the flame within, and the brightest figures shine on the white wall; and, if love only shows us fleeting shadows, we are but happy, when, like mere children we behold them, and are transported with the splendid phantoms.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, excerpt from The Sorrows of Young Werther

[billions-of-stars]

[emelelizabeth]

[geographyofthesoul]

They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?

Waking Life

[geographyofthesoul]

Francis Bacon, Three Studies of Lucian Freud