how many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
— Virginia Woolf
It is so cruel that we think we’re wasting time when we’re doing something that we love and that does not have any materialistic returns
you, who opened suns in my heart,
“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.” - Dr. Maya Angelou “Caged Bird” I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir
“A golden cage is still just a cage.”
-Anita Krizzan
"The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all."
“And you are my sacred book. My poem.”
– Umar Timol, from “Blood”, translated by Susan Wicks
Saint Petersburg, Russia. credit goes to @bloodandfun