It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
written by Albert Einstein (via pederost)

(Source: enflurane, via pederost)

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Architecture is frozen music.
written by Goethe (via inherwar)

(Source: iamnot-thereforeithink, via inherwar)

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theinnocenceofabird:

The externalization of the other.

commovente:

While in graduate school at the University of Houston, I supplemented my income by working as a writer in residence for Writers in the Schools (WITS). I was with WITS for three years, during which I visited third, fourth, and fifth grade classrooms, and worked with groups of students visiting the…

Last night,
I caught you
confabulating with the stars
about a new
constellation.

You left tokens of midnight all over my lids,
took every ticking away -
oh the sight and sound
of chalk on silk
as you drew nebulae near.

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vanitas painting by Kate Stone