“Artist
I don't mind
being the non-essential.
Even a child takes
its mother for granted.
It does not run back
to its mother until it's hurt.
Nobody first thinks of water
when they arrive
at an exquisite dinner party,
until they are choking.
I don't mind
being the non-essential
knowing you will come looking
when things are broken
and nothing else works.
Art is non-essential
Until it is not.
― Madhu Raghavendra”
―
I don't mind
being the non-essential.
Even a child takes
its mother for granted.
It does not run back
to its mother until it's hurt.
Nobody first thinks of water
when they arrive
at an exquisite dinner party,
until they are choking.
I don't mind
being the non-essential
knowing you will come looking
when things are broken
and nothing else works.
Art is non-essential
Until it is not.
― Madhu Raghavendra”
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“The world is an anthology in which we all are poems.”
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“It’s miraculous how you are prose by day, and poetry by night.”
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“Art is non-essential, until it is not.”
― Stick No Bills
― Stick No Bills
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