April 2011
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Away, travelling...
My dear friends and followers,
I need to prepare myself now for an early flight to Athens tomorrow, to experience that magnificent city, and for my trip around the Cyclades.
I want you to know that I appreciate all the beautiful art, poetry, quotes and artists you have reminded me of or introduced me to and, of course, all the lovely comments I’ve received and the enriching conversations I...
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“He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time,...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Can You Imagine
by Artur Międzyrzecki
Absence Can you imagine Absence Not as the opposite Of something that is and breathes Or a gap in the universal presence of things Or a catchword that calls for a mediating symbol Or for dialectic quibbles But as infinite transparence Where no images take root A colorless invisible monochrome Absence Something that’s not there That’s not there anywhere
(discovered via...
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Gatekeeper by Feist
This song and her voice,...
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elvedon asked: i know this sounds like a silly question, but where does your inspiration come from?
and also...how did you do the heading on your blog?
and also...how did you do the heading on your blog?
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“I know I don’t look it, but I’m beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel… thin....”
– Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (via oursilences)
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“In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys...”
– from Children of the Albatross by Anaïs Nin
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“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without...”
– Henri J.M. Nouwen
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“A victory! To leave your loneliness
panting behind you on some street corner...”
– The Rider by Naomi Shihab Nye (posted on the-final-sentence)
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Prayer
by Jorie Graham
Over a dock railing, I watch the minnows, thousands, swirl themselves, each a minuscule muscle, but also, without the way to create current, making of their unison (turning, re- infolding, entering and exiting their own unison in unison) making of themselves a visual current, one that cannot freight or...
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Ghosts
We make ourselves ghosts
haunted from the past
from what has been lost
what could never be.
Ghosts surround us,
of people that died too early,
of feelings we could not hold on to,
of promises no one could keep.
Ghosts of unspoken words and endless silences,
ghosts on paper and in the mind,
like these lines
fragile thoughts
of ghosts.
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a longing for the missing
i tried to bury forever in my bones, groaning under the weight of melancholy; i cannot see past this, beyond the escape from the labyrinth and the comfort of walls i learned how to breathe within
it’s not enough of a reason for having you in my life, or to steady my feet on the ground, but to grasp those exchanges from our hearts when we met each other
i am afraid i have forgotten now
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“I have nothing to say
and I am saying it
and that is poetry
as I need it.”
– John Milton Cage Jr. (American composer, 1912 - 1992)
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“The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain … You...”
– from The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
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Forget
by Czesław Miłosz
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting. Sometimes you hear a distant refrain. What does it mean, you ask, who is singing? A childlike sun grows warm. A grandson and a great-grandson are born. You are led by the hand once again. The names...
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“The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break...”
– Audre Lord (discovered, with thanks, through timshelvine)
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“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
– Ayn Rand
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Aubade
by Philip Larkin
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what’s really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now, Making all thought impossible but how And where and when I shall myself die. Arid interrogation: yet the dread Of dying, and being dead, Flashes afresh...
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A break
for a while
Goodbye
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Slide Away by Oasis (from Definitely Maybe, 1994)
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“The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality...”
– from Demian by Hermann Hesse
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Theories of the soul
by Karen An-Hwei Lee
A true friend is one soul in two bodies. —Aristotle Kant says, transcendental idealism. In Aquinas, we exist apart from bodies but only on Thursdays when his famous ox flies by the window wiser at Cologne where Albertus Magnus, his real name, appoints Aquinas to magister studentium, master of students. Aquinas is petrified but says yes. He feels his...
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“When I am feeling depressed and anxious and sullen
all you have to do is take...”
– excerpted from Poem: À la recherche de Gertrude Stein by Frank O’Hara (via teethandthings)
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