Sam Taylor-Wood’s “Still Life” : Impermanence 101
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“ These are the poems of a man
with eyes like a drawknife, with hands like a pickpocket’s
hands, woven of water and logic
and hunger, with no strand of love in them. These
poems are as heartless as birdsong, as unmeant
as elm leaves, which if they love love only
the wide blue sky and the air and the idea
of elm leaves. Self-love is an ending, she said,
and not a beginning. Love means love
of the thing sung, not of the song or the singing.
Robert Bringhurst from “The Beauty of the Weapons”
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“
When the moon has gone I fly I on alone
into this night where I have never been
the eggshell of dark before and after
in its height I am older and younger
than all that I have come to and beheld
and carry still untouched across the cold
The Curlew
WS Merwin
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“ If I’m cynical I’ve earned it.
Tony V, friend of mine
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“ In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
Cormac McCarthy “All The Pretty Horses “
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“ Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
Basho
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“ Two days before he died, my father was approached by a nurse, who asked him, “How are you feeling, Mr. Halifax?” And without hesitation he replied, “Everything.
Joan Halifax, “Being With Dying”
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“ I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) from Documents from The Store (via chrisvillacillo)
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