Love Is Not All by Edna St. Vincent Millay
 
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.

Simple by Raymond Carver

A break in the clouds. The blue
outline of the mountains.
Dark yellow of the fields.
Black river. What am I doing here,
lonely and filled with remorse?

I go on casually eating from the bowl
of raspberries. If I were dead,
I remind myself, I wouldn’t
be eating them. It’s not so simple.
It is that simple.

NO SUCH THING AS THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER by Andrea Gibson

Silence rides shotgun
wherever hate goes.

🖤 🖤

Neumann vs Przepiorka (1904)

The Kitten by Mary Oliver

More amazed than anything 
I took the perfectly black 
stillborn kitten
with the one large eye
in the center of its small forehead 
from the house cat's bed
and buried it in a field 
behind the house.

I suppose I could have given it
to a museum,
I could have called the local 
newspaper.

But instead I took it out into the field 
and opened the earth
and put it back
saying, it was real,
saying, life is infinitely inventive,
saying, what other amazements
lie in the dark seed of the earth, yes,
I think I did right to go out alone
and give it back peacefully, and cover the place 
with the reckless blossoms of weeds.

William Mortensen, Beelzebub, 1926

Kuroda Seiki, Impression, 1899

Kuroda Seiki, Sentiment, 1899

Tullio Crali, Sudden uplift, 1932

Tullio Crali, Battle over the Airport (Machine Gunner in Action), 1936

Adrianos Sotiris, Nocturne , 2015

Henri Matisse , The Joy of Life , 1906

Gustave Doré , The Holy Bible - The Deluge , 1866

Anselm Feuerbach , The Death of the Pietro Aretino , 1854

Alexander Archipenko, Reclining Torso, 1922

Henry Fuseli, The Shepherd's Dream, 1793

M.C. Escher, Fluorescent Sea, 1933

J. M. W. Turner, Fishermen at Sea, 1796