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You are a prism
The world is full of beauty and it's up to you to capture it. To look and to share it with as many people as you can. You are a prism through which that beam of life refracts.
— The Electrical Life of Louis Wain · 2021

A way to think about writing: not inventing the light, but letting it pass through you.

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a quote

This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.

— attributed to Maya Angelou

a poem

Go to the Limits of Your Longing

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours (1905)translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

a poem

Bath

The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air. The sunshine pours in at the bath-room window and bores through the water in the bath-tub in lathes and planes of greenish-white. It cleaves the…read more

— Amy Lowell, Men, Women and Ghosts (1916)

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