Water Lilies, 1907, Claude Monet

the universe is infinite and i’ve been stuck in the smallest space
the time has come to grow again
“My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear. ” — Crewdson
never let anyone fuck with your hustle. bad break up? get out the books. effort will never betray you. your degree will never leave you. this work means more than any man or woman who has or ever will hurt you. you are the architect of your own goddamn empire. work for it.
“I have read your poems with my door locked late at night and I have read them on the seashore where I could look all round me and see no more sign of human life than the ships out at sea: and here I often found myself waking up from a reverie with the book open before me. I love all poetry, and high generous thoughts make the tears rush to my eyes, but sometimes a word or a phrase of yours takes me away from the world around me and places me in an ideal land surrounded by realities more than any poem I ever read.”
Bram Stoker, from a letter to Walt Whitman written c. February 1872
1. You must let the pain visit.<br/> 2. You must allow it teach you<br/> 3. You must not allow it overstay.