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Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine. ↗


— John Donne


#bridegroom #love #passion #sexuality #wedding

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins. ↗


— Aldous Huxley


#taj-mahal #architecture

what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness ↗


— Alain de Botton


#architecture

The door handle is the handshake of the building. ↗


— Juhani Pallasmaa


#phenomenology #architecture

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation? ↗


— Catherine Gilbert Murdock


#stairs #architecture

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. ↗


— William Robertson Smith


#allegorical #arbitrary #attaches #be true #categories

As Toppers rose from her seat on a sofa to meet him, Storm realized that he was looking at an architectural marvel. She weighed less than a hundred pounds and was under five feet tall, but she was so top-heavy that Storm wondered how she kept herself from tumbling facedown when she reached out to shake his hand. ↗


— Richard Castle


#architecture

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes. ↗


— Richard Buckminster Fuller


#architecture #design #architecture

Architectural romance: "Romance is not something that fits". An example; parts that are unlike those not exactly true, but also a car that just fits in the garage. ↗


— Leopold van de Ven


#car #example #fit #fitting-in #parts






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