memoryslandscape-deactivated202:
Beauty is not loveliness, grace, or pleasurable sights, though any of those might certainly be part of it. For the writer out to evoke the texture of experience, beauty is simply accuracy, to come as close as we can to what seems to be the real.
— Mark Doty, from The Art of Description: World into Word (Graywolf Press, 2010)
memoryslandscape-deactivated202:
Remember, we do not wake from dreams into reality, but into other dreams.
—Simon Van Booy, from The Presence of Absence (Godine, 2022)
Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3