“How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?”

– Charles Lindbergh

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“Delight becomes pictorial
When viewed through pain.”

Emily Dickinson (Excerpt from Delight Becomes Pictorial)

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“Please bring strange things.
Please come bringing new things.
Let very old things come into your hands.
Let what you do not know come into your eyes.
Let desert sand harden your feet.
Let the arch of your feet be the mountains.
Let the paths of your fingertips be your maps
And the ways you go be the lines of your palms.
Let there be deep snow in your inbreathing
And your outbreath be the shining of ice.
May your mouth contain the shapes of strange words.
May you smell food cooking you have not eaten.
May the spring of a foreign river be your navel.
May your soul be at home where there are no houses.
Walk carefully, well-loved one,
Walk mindfully, well-loved one,
Walk fearlessly, well-loved one.
Return with us, return to us,
Be always coming home.”

Please Bring Strange Things by Ursula K. Le Guin

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“A perfectly kept house is the sign of a misspent life.”

Mary Randolph Carter

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“Color possesses me. I don’t have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. Color and I are one.”

– Paul Klee

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“I want to be with those who are wise
or else alone.
I want always to be a mirror that reflects your whole being,
and never to be too blind or too old
to hold your heavy, swaying image.
I want to unfold,
for where I am folded, there I am a lie.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (Excerpt from I am too alone in the world.)

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