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Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels you imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work ( and theft ) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don't bother concealing your thievery-celebrate it if you like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: ''It's not where you take things from- it's where you take them to.'' Jim Jarmusch

[mournfulroses]

Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

[gentlier]

Image I.D. — “The shortest poem is a name.” — End I.D.

[mournfulroses]

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

[mournfulroses]

Marcel Proust, from The Complete Works; “Remembrance of Things Past,”

[24hoursinthelifeofawoman]

Vanessa Redgrave and David Hemmings in Blow-Up directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966

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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could. -Louise Erdrich

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[the-night-picture-collector]

/ Bernard Plossu, Nijar, Almeria, Andalucia, 1992

[egelim]

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Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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— Theodore Roethke, from “Straw for the fire.”

[nobrashfestivity]

Yumeji Takehisa, Book Design “To the Mountains” Taisho 8

[themindmovement]

“And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns...that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale...that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself.”

— Bob Dylan

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[equatorjournal]

Rod Borland filming on the 300-metre dunes of the Namib, 1971.

From “SOS Wildlife: true ’‘Survival” stories" by Victor Edwards, 1975. https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ-Apl7t6ha/?utm_medium=tumblr

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