Sometimes darknessis the beauty I am made of
Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum.
“We must live with our hearts in our hands - like Mary.We must hold the blood-red heart and no be disappointedwhen others look away.”
“Yes, it hurts to fall ache, tendernessbut each scar is a sign your system is working.”
“As I go under, I wonder if theres a reason for art?”
“She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artists marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.”
“in the corner of the painting of successthe signature is blurred”
“Like the kite that caught up to the sky,painted with clouds, I lost track of it, but it was connected by string, something I was holding, something I could always bring back.”
“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”
“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”
“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
“You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love...”
“the more pretty the face is " , "the more dirty past it has”
“As the bell rang he would look back at the departing year. He always found it a moving experience. Sometimes he was racked by sorrow and regret. Even when the sentimentality of the announcers repel...”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”
“Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the ni...”