#violet clouds

Oversharing pictures of the sky I took tonight

cause it was too pretty and cause I can, eheh

confetti rain, their eldest and starry rays and violet clouds, their younger twin girls !!! closeups and extras under cut!!!

Emil Nolde - Sea with Violet Clouds and Three Yellow Sailboats, 1946

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As Milosz said in Ars Poetica,

… And yet the world is  different from what it seems to be and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings. People therefore preserve silent integrity, thus earning the respect of their relatives and neighbors. The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will. What I’m saying here is not, I agree, poetry, as poems should be written rarely and reluctantly, under unbearable duress and only with the hope That good spirits, not evil ones, choose us for their instrument.

—Excerpt from Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems (1931-2001) Harper-Collins 2001