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\"chic<\/a><\/p>\n

Some time ago,\u00a0Desire to Inspire<\/a>\u00a0ran a post called Room Porn<\/a>. \u00a0It wasn’t our idea of room porn (which we’re very into, but for a totally different sensibility) EXCEPT for the scrawled writing across the top of the room; it segues with our strange lust\/love of signs. It’s do-able by mere mortals and holds lots of possibilities.<\/p>\n

Dig this flight of stairs with a quote you read as you walk up…<\/p>\n

\""Childhood<\/a>
photo: marieclairemaison.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Childhood finds its paradise in a moment. It does not ask for happiness. It is happiness.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We wish we knew who said it….<\/p>\n

…We love this Goethe <\/a>quote\u00a0written in German, in lovely script, on a kitchen wall…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
jasna.janekovic's photostream\/flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kein Wesen kann zu nichts zerfallen!<\/em>
\nDas Ew`ge regt sich fort in allen,<\/em>
\nAm Sein erhalte dich begl\u00fcckt!<\/em>
\nDas Sein ist ewig; denn Gesetze<\/em>
\nBewahren die lebend`gen Sch\u00e4tze,<\/em>
\nAus welchen sich das All geschm\u00fcckt.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We emailed David Saltman, who can navigate many languages, and asked if he could translate. “It’s from Faust<\/a>” he wrote. Difficult and beautiful.” <\/em>He sent us his rough translation…<\/p>\n

\n
No being can decay into nothing!<\/em><\/div>\n
The eternal moves always in all,<\/em><\/div>\n
In His is your happiness maintained!<\/em><\/div>\n
Being is eternal; because Law<\/em><\/div>\n
Preserves the living treasures<\/em><\/div>\n
With which all and everything is adorned.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

and then\u00a0a classic, rhyming translation<\/a> he found:<\/p>\n

What exists cannot into nothingness fall!\u00a0<\/em>
\nThe eternal ever reigns strong in all,\u00a0<\/em>
\nIn pure existence be content!\u00a0<\/em>
\nBeing is eternal: and law’s measures\u00a0<\/em>
\nPreserve the living treasures\u00a0<\/em>
\nThat adorn the universe’s raiment.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Both quotes were wonderful finds for us.<\/p>\n

The trick to writing on a wall, of course, is to write something you really want to live with…Or else write it on a wall you can easily paint over …Or scrawl it on a wall painted with chalkboard or dry-erase paint<\/a>…<\/p>\n

or tape, as our friend Holton Rower did years ago<\/a>; it remains one of our favorites:<\/p>\n

\"Sally
holton rower via sally schneider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\n<\/a>\u201clove cannot be, without love\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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