#it

The eye should learn to listen before it looks. ↗

— Robert Frank

#photography #photography

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. ↗

— Rumi

#each #fall #feet #finally #first

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#fall #solitude #fall

When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#photography #photography

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#photography #war-photography #photography

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#literature #photography #photography

I am who I am and that's who I am ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#reality #present

He taught me there's a place on a man's back where, if you sink a blade in, you can pierce his heart and sever his spine, all at once,' Sebastian had said. 'I guess we got the same birthday present that year, big brother,' Jace thought. 'Didn't we? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-glass #herondale #jace #lightwood #morganstern

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#feeling #giving #gratitude #like #present

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#government-corruption #politics #senate #present