{art inspiration} The artists, writers and musicians I deeply admire and give me motivation are :
Ansel Adams
Ina Saltz
Dorothea Lange
Johannes Vermeer
Thelonius Monk
Led Zeppelin
George Eliot
CS. Lewis
(and many many more..)
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{favorite piece of literature } Dream of the Rood (excerpt listed below, the work is an example of a glorious medieval literature poem, author unknown) :
... '
I beheld sorrowful the tree of the Saviour, until I heard it utter a sound;
it began to speak words, the best of wood:

"That was very long ago, I remember it still,
that I was cut down from the edge of the wood,
ripped up by my roots.

They seized me there, strong enemies,
made me a spectacle for themselves there, commanded me to
raise up their criminals.

Men carried me there on their shoulders, until they set me
on a hill enemies enough fastened me there. I saw then the Saviour of
mankind hasten with great zeal, as if he wanted to climb up on me.

There I did not dare, against the word of the Lord, bow or break, when I saw the
corners of the earth tremble. I might have felled all the enemies; even so, I stood fast. .

He stripped himself then, young hero - that was God almighty "...