How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling
 - Claude Debussy

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

• — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

​Be thankful that you are here, swallowed with all hope,
where you can rest and wait. Be nostalgic. Think of all
the things you did and could have done.

• — Dan Albergotti

 

​In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.

•  — Bertolt Brecht

​You cannot get in the way of anyone’s path to happiness, it also does no good. 
 The problem is figuring out which part is the path and which part is the happiness.
 It’s a blessing: every day someone shows up at the fence. And when no one shows up,
a different kind of blessing. 

 In the wrong light anyone can look like a darkness.

• — Richard Siken
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​I will not be triumphed over.
​— Cleopatra

​My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty'
or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' 
— Oscar Niemeyer
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​My blood is alive with many voices that tell me I am made of longing.
— Rilke Maria Rainer 

​In a world myriad as ours,
the gaze is a singular act: to look at something
is to fill your whole life with it,
if only briefly. 
— Ocean Vuong 
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​Teach me to sin--
Enslave me to your wanton charms,
Crush me in your velvet arms
And make me, make me love you.
Make me fire your blood with new desire,
And make me kiss you—lip and limb,
Till sense reel and pulses swim.
Aye! even if you hate me,
Teach me to sin.
 - Alfred Bryan