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“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”

— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin

Martin Buxbaum

“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Poetry is the end for me. It’s always what I go back to, and everything is filtered through that.”

— Terrance Hayes, interviewed by Jeffrey J. Williams for Lit Hub (via bostonpoetryslam)

Monet painting details.

My head in the rainclouds,

my heart in the sky

~ Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch