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Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · Mar 16
So you should taste the filtered light
and work your way toward wisdom
with no personal covering.
That’s how you came here, like a star
without a name. Move across the night sky
with those anonymous lights.
-Rumí #booksky #poem

Egon Schiele #art #painting #oilpainting
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Americans should know the universe as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls
Walt Whitman #booksky #quote #poetry

John McAllister #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart
January 28, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville #booksky #author

David Hockney #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #digitalart
January 27, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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I used to do this, the self I was
used to do this

the selves I no longer am
nor understand.
{…}
about loving someone
then walk away, coolly

I’m not ashamed
Love is large and monstrous

Maggie Nelson #booksky #poetry #quotes

Colleen Herman #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting #artist
January 26, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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I want a candidate who isn't the lesser of two evils […]

a president who has stood on

line at the clinic, at the dmv, at the welfare office […] sexually harrassed and gaybashed and deported.

I want someone who has committed civil disobedience.
Zoe Leonard #poetry #booksky

Jasper Johns #art
January 25, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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Tell me how all this, and love too,
will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we’ll never get used to it.

—Richard Siken #poetry #booksky #quote

Lilly Fenichel #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart
January 24, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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God, give us a long winter
and quiet music, and patient mouths,
and a little pride––before
our age ends.
Give us astonishment
and a flame, high, bright.
Adam Zagajewski #booksky #poetry #quote

Jonathan Schofield #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting
January 22, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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If there is something to recall,
there was nothing to regret.
If there was nothing to regret,
there was nothing to desire.
Vera Pavlova #booksky #poetry

Aisha Christison #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting
January 20, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin #booksky #author #quote

Ksenia Sandesko #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting
January 18, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
Anne Sexton #poet #booksky #poem

Anna Koruth #art #artist #abstractart #contemporaryart #painting
January 15, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.
Carol Ann Duffy #poetry #author #quote #booksky

Jenny Morgan #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart
January 14, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Often a sweetness comes
as if on loan, stays just long enough
to make sense of what it means to be alive […]
I don’t care where it’s been, or what bitter road
it’s traveled
to come so far, to taste so good.
Stephen Dunn #booksky #poetry #quotes

Samantha Sobhani #art #artist #painting
January 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Every ploughed field, every row of trees.
Every square church tower in the distance.
Every minute of sunshine, every shadow.
Every wisp of cloud in the wide, blue, East Anglian sky.
Every day. Every day that's left.
Wendy Cope #booksky #poetry #poem

Tiana Titin #artist #painting #oilpaint
January 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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I have realized that the moon
did not have to be full for us to love it.
That we are not tragedies
stranded here beneath it.
Buddy Wakefield #boosky #poetry #quotes

Agnes Pelton #art #abstractart #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting
January 10, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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You say you see my mouth, ears, eyes, nose, they are not mine
I am the life of life
I am that cat, this stone, no one
I have thrown duality away like an old dishrag {…}
This is your own voice echoing off the walls of God.
Rumí #poetry #booksky

Sei Shibusawa #art #painting #contemporaryart #artist
January 8, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
Joan Didion #author #booksky #quote

Patricia Iglesias Peco #painting #art #artist #60s #oilpainting
January 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
Toni Morrison #booksky #quote #writing

Dairo Vargas #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting
January 6, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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I used to do this, the self I was
used to do this

the selves I no longer am
nor understand.
{…}
about loving someone
then walk away, coolly

I’m not ashamed
Love is large and monstrous

Maggie Nelson #booksky #poetry #quotes

Sei Shibusawa #artist #art #contemporaryart #painting #ink
January 5, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’
Sylvia Plath #booksky #author #quote

Art by: Veronika Blyzniuchenko #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #goldleaf
January 4, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin #booksky #author #quote

Jan Preisler #art #artist #oilpainting #painting #symbolism
January 3, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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To be alive: not just the carcass
But the spark.
That's crudely put, but...
If we're not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?
Gregory Orr #booksky #poem #poetry #quote

Rae Klein #art #artist #oilpainting #painting #contemporaryart
January 1, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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Ring the bells that still can ring,
forget your perfect offering,
there is a crack, a crack in everything
that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen #booksky #quote #lyrics #poetry

Monika Marchewka #art #artist #contemporsryart #painter #painting #oilpaint
December 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez #booksky

Art by: Stephan Stoikov #art #artist #painting
December 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.
Alfred Tennyson #booksky #poetry #quote

Art by: Madge Gill #art #artist #contemporaryart #fineline #drawing
December 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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He questioned softly why I failed?
“For beauty,” I replied.
“And I for truth,—the two are one;
We brethren are,” he said.

And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
—Emily Dickinson #booksky #poetry

Jessica Brilli #art #artist #contemporaryart
December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Dostoyevsky #booksky #author #quote

Erica Mahinay #art #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting #artist
December 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM