Sarah Lubala

Sarah Lubala

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Johannesburg, South Africa / Hello! I'm a person in the world and I love you.
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crowning glory
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crowning glory / "Stand on the highest pavement of the stair— Lean on a garden urn— Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair— Clasp your flowers to you with a pained surprise— Fling them to the ground and turn With a fugitive resentment in your eyes: But weave, weave the sunlight in your hair." – T.S. Eliot, "La Figlia Che Piange"
spring/summer looks
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spring/summer looks / "Le soleil mon grand copain." —Brigitte Bardot, La Madrague
wordlight
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wordlight / "you're rowing by wordlight...” — Paul Celan
kitchen
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kitchen / "Hail to your two hands, which fly and make their white creations, the singing and the food: salve! the wholesomeness of your busy feet; viva! the ballerina who dances with the broom." — Pablo Neruda, "Sonnet LIII"
bedroom
208 Pins
bedroom / "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." ― Edgar Allen Poe, "A Dream Within a Dream"
doodles
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doodles / "I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever." — Beatrix Potter, The Journal of Beatrix Potter
dining room
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dining room / “I envy the table its scars, the scorch marks caused by the hot bread tins. I envy its calm sense of time, and I wish I could say: I did this five years ago. I made this mark...This is where Anouk carved her initials, the year she was six years old, this secret place behind the table leg. I did this on a warm day seven summers ago with the carving knife. Do you remember? Do you remember the summer the river ran dry? Do you remember? I envy the table’s calm sense of place.” ― Joanne Harris, Chocolat
living-room
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living-room / "Lie still now while I prepare for my future, certain hard days ahead, when I’ll need what I know so clearly this moment. I am making use of the one thing I learned of all the things my father tried to teach me: the art of memory. I am letting this room and everything in it stand for my ideas about love..." — Li-Young Lee, “This Room and Everything in It”
bathroom
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bathroom / "Grandma is washing me white. I am the color of hot sand in the bleached sea light. I am a stain on the porcelain, persistent as tea... Don’t say, I can’t stand to be touched. Don’t say, Mulatto. Say, I am the horse in Oz turning different colors, each prance brightening flesh. A curiosity. Don’t say, bathwater spiraled down into the pipes. Say, I never did fade. Say, skin holds the perseverance of my days. Folding, folding, the water continuously gathers, making wrinkles in a map." — Roxanne Beth Johnson, "Mulatto"
living on bread alone
119 Pins
living on bread alone / "After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations." — Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
sitting pretty
118 Pins
sitting pretty / "Their language rolls out, soft carpet in front of them. Strolling slowly beneath trees, men in white shirts, belts, baggy trousers, women in scarves, glinting cigarettes in the dusk. What they left to be here, in the cold country, where winter lasts forever, haunts them in the dark— golden hue of souk in sunlight, gentle calling through streets that said, brother, sit with me a minute, on the small stool with the steaming glass of tea. Sit with me. We belong together." —Naomi Shihab Nye, "Arabs in Finland"
cabinets, dressers & drawers
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cabinets, dressers & drawers / "There are places in your skeleton you do not speak fondly of. Hide them in your closets, like the mangos in your pantries...never unlock it. There are ghosts down there. You must promise to never unlock it. Swear to me you will swallow the key." – Alex Sparks, "Show and Tell"
home office
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home office / “Write hard and clear about what hurts." ― Ernest Hemingway
fireplace
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fireplace / "Here are the bread-the wine-the table-the house: a man's needs, and a woman's, and a life's. Peace whirled through and settled in this place: the common fire burned, to make this light." ― Pablo Neruda, "Sonnet LIII"
make up your mind
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make up your mind / "Happy girls are the prettiest." — Audrey Hepburn
bloom
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bloom / "Life grows lovely where you are." — Mathilde Blind, "Love in Exile"
shelf life
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shelf life / "The poems stand in boxes on the shelves, like quantities of beans, detergents, or oats. I read a poem in this first book, a stanza, of this prize-winner, this new edition, this rough pamphlet, this virginal, blurb-sided tome... fresh meat chucked at the voracious maw of love." – Galway Kinnell, "The Poetry Shelf"
walls
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walls / "... and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint, you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them. I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world." ― Frank O'Hara, "Having a Coke with You"
doorways & hallways
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doorways & hallways / “Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." ― Emily Dickinson, "Part Two: Nature LXXXIX"
where will you sleep?
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where will you sleep? / "Where will you sleep? At the down-turned jagged rim of the sky? Where will you and I sleep?" ― Wintu Song
merry
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merry / "He took the Who’s feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.” ― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch stole Christmas!
an ode to common things
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an ode to common things / “We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan, Grayed in, and gray. 'Dream' makes a giddy sound, not strong Like 'rent,' 'feeding a wife,' 'satisfying a man.' But could a dream send up through onion fumes Its white and violet, fight with fried potatoes And yesterday’s garbage ripening in the hall, Flutter, or sing an aria down these rooms..." ― Gwendolyn Brooks, "kitchenette building"
consoles & sidetables
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consoles & sidetables / "On worn kitchen stools and tables we are piecing our weapons together, scraps of different histories, do not let us shatter any altar." –Audre Lord, "Call"
woven
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woven / "Weave me closer to you with hands dyed indigo that rake oyster beds awake Smell you long before I see you Vanilla sweet Sweetgrass weaving... Pray the evil spirits away at the praise house Make John Hop to stave off John Deere We migrants fighting to stay put Even nomads come home for a Lowcountry boil a feast for hungry prodigal sons and daughters with hearts dyed indigo Dying for you to weave us closer." — LeConté Dill, "We Who Weave"
just my type
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just my type / “Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.” ― H.G. Wells, The History of Mr. Polly
blush
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blush / “Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset...” ― Kahlil Gibran
été
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été / “If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe..." ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
by the book
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by the book / "Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins." — Anne Sexton
little house
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little house / “The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise
patterns & prints
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patterns & prints / “One eye sees, the other feels.” ― Paul Klee
let them eat cake
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let them eat cake / “There is honey in this land sweeter than any I know of, and I have cut cane in places where the dirt itself tasted like sugar...” ― Toni Morrison, Paradise
littlest
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littlest / “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
fall/winter looks
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fall/winter looks / "At no other time than autumn does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds..." — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cézanne
be still
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be still / "...there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.” ― T.S. Eliot
bébé
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bébé / “I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.” ― Charles Dickens
fancy
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fancy / “Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed. But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.” ― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
beach is better
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beach is better / "Summer was also the time of these: of sudden plenty, of slow hours and actions, of diamond haze and dust on the eyes; of jazzing wasps and dragonflies, haystacks and thistle-seeds, snows of white butterflies, skylark's eggs, bee-orchids, and frantic ants...All this, and the feeling that it would never end, that such days had come forever..." ― Laurie Lee, Cider With Rosie
soft magic
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soft magic / "When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included?" — Mary Oliver
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11 Books That Have Won Awards So Far This Year
Cover art, lettering: Edel Rodriguez. Chinua Achebe reissues. (Anchor Books / Vintage, publication date: n/a.)

Chinua Achebe: Collected Poems Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe reads his little-known poems in a rare recording:

oliver munday illustration
“Eykelboom”

Illustration by Leslie Herman, for the New Yorker / fiction

The Kissing List: Stories, Stephan Reents. Clever.
Jacket design: David Gee. (Hamish Hamilton Canada, 2010.)
Jim Tierney
Vintage Classics. Painting from the V & A.

Vintage Classics. Painting from the V & A.