Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A candle never loses any of its light while lighting up another candle. Rumi #booksky #author #quote Peter Doig #art #artist #painting #oilpainting 0130
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We live our lives, made up of a great quantity of isolated instants So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things. John Ashbery #boosky #quotes #poetry Tessa Greene O’Brien #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart 180
Reposted by Es RichardEs Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. Emily Dickinson #booksky #poetry #quotes Tuan Vu #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting 091
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Every ploughed field, every row of trees. […] Every minute of sunshine, every shadow. Every wisp of cloud in the wide, blue, East Anglian sky. Every day. Every day that's left. Wendy Cope #booksky #poetry #poem Meghann Stephenson #art #artist #oilpainting #contenporaryart 0120
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Longing Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone —Czesław Miłosz #poetry #booksky #author Art: Kevin Yaun #art #artist #painting #oilpaint #contemporaryart 1151
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 30/08/2026We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde #booksky #quote Clara Gesang-Gottowt #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting #artist 0131
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026And never to forget beauty, however strange or difficult. Reginald Shepherd #booksky #quote #poetry Art: Cathleen Clarke #painting #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting 090
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. Anáis Nin #booksky #author #quote Eleonora Rinaldi #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting 0171
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Everything is but a shadow of a golden past. The colours will fade in the twilight of history. Derek Jarman #booksky #prose #quotes Benji Grignon #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart 1150
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Only to one who is prepared to lose one's life in its known form, life will appear newly robed in infinitely greater beauty and perfection. But to achieve such a state, silence must be acquired in both thought and feeling. Words and art by Hilma af Klint #art #artist #painting #quotes #booksky 0130
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. —Raymond Carver #booksky #poetry #quotes Fumiya Odagawa #painting #art #artist #oilpainting #contemporaryart 150
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Rainer Maria Rilke #booksky #quote #poetry Artist: SYLC #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpaint 060
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I have realized that the moon did not have to be full for us to love it. That we are not tragedies stranded here beneath it. Buddy Wakefield #boosky #poetry #quotes Michele Fletcher #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart 070
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us. -Mary Oliver #booksky #poem Tamara de Lempicka #art #artist #painting #artdeco 0121
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. To hear the immense night, still more immense without her. And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture. […] Love is so short, forgetting is so long. -Pablo Neruda #booksky #poetry Nadia K Waheed #art 090
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Me and God are two old men at the same diner, we nod, we do not sit together yet, He knows what I did and I know what He did not, and the coffee is decent, and there is time, well, there is coffee. Wilson #poem #booksky #debutpoetry #debutpoetryat84 Michele Fletcher #art #artist #painting #oil 070
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 06/07/2026How to go home again when the wood thrush is promising the drunk liquid bliss of dusk How to resist the kiss, the body forbidden that plucks the long vibrating string of want How to drink water when there is wine — Now I know better. Barbara Kingsolver #booksky #fragments Julie Mehretu #art 070
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun. J.R.R. Tolkien #booksky #quotes Alejandra Caicedo #art #painting #contemporaryart #oils 051
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I used to do this, the self I was used to do this the selves I no longer am nor understand. {…} about loving someone then walk away, coolly I’m not ashamed Love is large and monstrous Maggie Nelson #booksky #poetry #quotes Colleen Herman #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting #artist 0160
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we’ll never get used to it. —Richard Siken #poetry #booksky #quote Radu Baies #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart 070
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. Arthur Rimbaud #booksky #poetry #quotes Alia Ahmad #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart 0120
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Americans should know the universe as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls Walt Whitman #booksky #quote #poetry John McAllister #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart 090
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing I do. Haruki Murakami #booksky #quotes #author Erica Mahinay #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart 0120
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. Bertolt Brecht #booksky #quote #poetry #writing Michael McGrath #art #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting #acrylicpainting 080
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026We live our lives, made up of a great quantity of isolated instants So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things. John Ashbery #boosky #quotes #poetry Tessa Greene O’Brien #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart 0110
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 30/05/2026believe us, they say, it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. -Mary Oliver #poem #poetry #booksky Fumiya Odagawa #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #acrylicpainting 1100
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. Kahlil Gibran #poetry #booksky Art: Yeon Kyung Park #painting #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting 0100
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. Rumi #poetry #booksky Sylvia Snowden #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting 0141
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 22/05/2026You say you see my mouth, ears, eyes, nose, they are not mine I am the life of life I am that cat, this stone, no one I have thrown duality away like an old dishrag {…} This is your own voice echoing off the walls of God. Rumí #poetry #booksky Lilia Orlova-Holmes #art #painting #contemporaryart 0110
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 21/05/2026If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry #booksky #TheLittlePrince #quote #author Emilio Perez #art #artist #modernart #oilpainting 0120
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 18/05/2026The most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed. & remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world. -Ocean Vuong #booksky #poetry #quotes -Colin Brant #art #artist #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting 0210
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings. Mary Oliver #booksky #quotes #poetry Lynne Drexler #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart 0100
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 13/05/2026So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald #booksky #author #quote #TheGreatGatsby Ivan Terestchenko #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting 0100
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’ Sylvia Plath #booksky #author #quote Art by: Stefan Stoikov #art #artist #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting 0161
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 10/05/2026A candle never loses any of its light while lighting up another candle. Rumi #booksky #author #quote Helen Lundeberg #art #artist #painting #oilpainting 0191
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 08/05/2026We ran all night. Took to threatening the moon. That was when I taped it all together, everything even my mouth to yours. Robert Wood Lynn #booksky #poetry #author #poem Radu Baeis #art #artist #painting #oilpaint #contemporaryart 0120
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Every ploughed field, every row of trees. Every square church tower in the distance. Every minute of sunshine, every shadow. Every wisp of cloud in the wide, blue, East Anglian sky. Every day. Every day that's left. Wendy Cope #booksky #poetry #poem Karen Kilimnik #artist #painting #oilpaint 090
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 06/05/2026You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue. Carol Ann Duffy #poetry #author #quote #booksky Alvaro Barrington #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart 0130
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 03/05/2026I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged. Marguerite Duras #booksky #poem Shirazeh Houshiary #art #artist 050
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. {…} At present you need to live the question. Rainer Maria Rilke #booksky #quotes Colleen Herman #art #artist #painting #oilpaint 0101
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 01/05/2026We are all broken, that's how the light gets in. Ernest Hemingway #quote #booksky #author Sonia Delaunay #art #oilpainting #contemporaryart #illustration #painting #artist 0130
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do. Toni Morrison #booksky #quote #writing France-Lise McGurn #art #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting 060
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 27/04/2026The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. WB Yeats #poetry #quote #writing #author #booksky Sophia Lowb #art #contemporaryart #artist #oilpainting 080
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. Pablo Neruda #poetry #booksky #valentinesday Jess Allen #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpainting 0151
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 25/04/2026She had horses who danced in their mothers' arms. She had horses who thought they were the sun and their bodies shone and burned like stars. She had horses who waltzed nightly on the moon. She had some horses. Joy Harjo #poetry #booksky #poem #quotes Agnes Pelton #art #artist #painting #oilpainting 0110
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Don’t move. I like this ledge of loose diamonds waiting to be spilled into the night. Let’s shine awhile without touching. Sensuality is, after all, a river that is always waiting. Tess Gallagher #author #booksky #quotes #witing Gaspard Girard d’Albissin #art #artist #painting #oilpainting 0121
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 22/04/2026If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance. Seamus Heaney #booksky #quote #poetry Tunji Adeniyi-Jones #art #artist #painter #oilpainting 0152
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Rainer Maria Rilke #booksky #quote #poetry Birgit Fechner #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #oilpaint 080
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi #booksky #poetry #quote #poem Sasha Gordon #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart 0120
Es Richard @es-richard.bsky.social · 16/04/2026You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from. Joan Didion #booksky #quotes #author Christine Ay Tjoe #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart 060
