Tweedledum

“Seek what you want, cherish what you find, but remember there will always be more.”
― Naoise Dolan

“To think through things, that is the still life painter’s work - and the poet’s. Both sorts of artists require a tangible vocabulary, a worldly lexicon. A language of ideas is, in itself, a phantom language, lacking in the substance of worldly things, those containers of feeling and experience, memory and time. We are instructed by the objects that come to speak with us, those material presences. Why should we have been born knowing how to love the world. We require, again and again, these demonstrations. (p10)”
― Mark Doty, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“The sensual and spiritual are the same energy playing at different speeds, like poetry and dance" Alla Bozarth Campbell.”
― Alla Bozarth-Campbell