"But—dreams take sweat and tears and apologies. Hopes are stitched with false starts and valleys of failure. The ease of intimacy you see in a single conversation took many, many turns through the desert. Romance is not romantic. A building begins with the smashing of elbows and hammers. Our art, whether song or dance or writing or film or poetry, takes months of anxious labor. The band you see on stage rocking the stadium spent directionless weekends in pubs in front of disinterested strangers. Art is never born from safety and stillness."

- J.S. Park (via pureblyss)

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