This is the secret of the stars, I tell myself. In the end, we are alone. No matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you.
Beth Revis, Across the Universe (via books-n-quotes)
Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866 - 1944)
Black Relationship / Schwarze Beziehung , 1924
Watercolor and ink on paper
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Amélie | dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 2001
DoP: Bruno Delbonnel
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) | dir. Ridley Scott
Cinematography by John Mathieson
Kaidan aka Kwaidan (1964)
Director: Masaki Kobayashi Cinematography by Yoshio Miyajima
A loyal subject of these second-rate years, I proudly admit that my finest ideas are second-rate, and may the future take them as trophies of my struggle against suffocation. I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.
Joseph Brodsky, from Sit By The Window (via 4eternal-life)
The Virgin Suicides (1999) | dir. Sofia Coppola | USA
Cinematography by Edward Lachman
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
John Berger (via memoryslandscape)
Oksana Akinshina
He loved three things in life:
Evensong, white peacocks
And old maps of America.
He hated it when children cried,
He hated tea with raspberry jam
And women's hysterics.
. . . And I was his wife.
Anna Akhmatova
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (via coffeeandmeditation)