​I will not be triumphed over.
​— Cleopatra

​What is a work of art if not the gaze of another person?
― Karl Ove Knausgård

​There is pleasure in the pathless woods
 - Lord Byron

​The most painful state of being is remembering the future.
 - Søren Kierkegaard

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling of the fresh life within 
that withers and bursts the husk.

• — George MacDonald

​Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.
– Imogen Cunningham

​My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty'
or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' 
— Oscar Niemeyer
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​​Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light. 
― Alan Brennert

​Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the disheveled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame. 
― William Butler Yeats