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John A Sargent III (USA) - The Hierarchy Of Perisitence, 2012 Painting: Oil

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“When the plane went down in San Francisco, I thought of my friend M. He’s obsessed with plane crashes. He memorizes the wrecked metal details, the clear cool skies cut by black scars of smoke. Once, while driving, he told me about all the crashes: The one in blue Kentucky, in yellow Iowa. It was almost a year before I learned his brother was a pilot. I can’t help it, I love the way men love.”

— Ada Limón, “Accident Report In The Tall, Tall Weeds,” from Bright Dead Things

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im obsessed with this guy now

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No doubt in Holland, when van Gogh was a boy, there were swans drifting over the green sea of the meadows, and no doubt on some warm afternoon he lay down and watched them, and almost thought: this is everything. What drove him to get up and look further is what saves this world, even as it breaks the hearts of men.

— Mary Oliver, from “Everything,” House of Light (Beacon Press, 1990)