Sublime
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To love and live with a painter means marveling at the space between the things they see that you cannot see, that they then make. White canvas, blank walls, his vision.
Elizabeth Alexander • The Light of the World: A Memoir
“taking the time to live.”
Moyra Davey • Index Cards
This great artist is a man whose life-time is consumed by struggle: partly against material circumstances, partly against incomprehension, partly against himself.
John Berger • Ways of Seeing (Penguin Modern Classics)
love-flesh swelling
Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass
To Ann Northrop, AIDS seemed like the war in Vietnam all over again—again the powerful didn’t care about the powerless, who were dying.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
a man who lived as if the wild places of the hemisphere were his for the taking.
Rich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
And even though we saw the darkness coming we said nothing and let them dream on.