“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” ― James Baldwin
“I’m sorry, but you’ll have to pry the beauty of the world from my cold, dead hands. It will be there long after we are.” Yes yes yes! Reminds me of Yeats: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, —that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
“I’m sorry, but you’ll have to pry the beauty of the world from my cold, dead hands. It will be there long after we are.” Yes yes yes! Reminds me of Yeats: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, —that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
grace i needed these words so bad. reading them felt like a glass of clean water after having sewer water recently. really needed this one 💛