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'The greatest benefit we owe to the #artist, whether painter, #poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies....
#Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience... beyond the bounds of our personal lot.'
#GeorgeEliot
“Know that if all of creation strove to benefit you in what was not decreed for you, they would fail. And if they conspired to harm you in what was not decreed for you, they too would fail, for the pages of the book of decree have been folded over, and the pens have run dry.”
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#JuneteenthDay https://t.co/Bam602pWlC #posh #hive #junteenth
"The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out."
#Egyptian saying
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed... I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, / I am no prophet—and here's no great matter.
#Eliot
"To look around the United States today is enough to make prophets and angels weep."
#JamesBaldwin
#GeorgeFloyd’s face floats slightly out of focus
In the same way a fire always does
Because there is no beginning or end
When you look at either, only the heat,
Remember the heat, how it burns the back
Of the throat as night screams his name through the flames.
--@RowanRicardo
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only #beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible...
To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be... a means of holding onto the real.
—@GilbertLiz