If the will to survive is your topic, and the power of companionship, and if you’re not much into dialogues, here’s a good film: #filmsky #winter

#Winter #BookWormSat

#Winter #BookWormSat

“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.” 📚 T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land 🖼️ Ramon Casas, Jove Decadent #BookWormSat #poetry #winter

Nice Freudian slip: the # I just used turned out to be BookWornSat. It’s the topic that wears me out: wondering if my posts sufficiently reflect my dislike of winter?? :D #BookWormSat

“Winter coming. Like the last heroic soldier Of a defeated army, you’ll stay at your post, Head bared to the first snow flake. Till a neighbour comes to yell at you, You’re crazier than the weather, Charlie. “ 📚 Charles Simic, Against Winter #BookWormSat #poetry #winter

“It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain.” 📚 Truman Capote, American Fantastic Tales 🖼️ Frederick Childe Hassam, Late Afternoon, Winter #BookWormSat #winter

‘ I wonder if the snow 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓈 the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”’ 📚 L.Carroll, Through the Looking Glass 🖼️ C. Monet #BookWormSat #winter

winter solitude winter solitude— a world of one color the sound of wind ❄️Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) Trans by Robert Hass 📷Adrian Petrisor #BookWormSat

🎁 Best Christmas present this year: got an Italian friend whose birthday is today, so his parents called him Natale (=It. for Christmas)(yes, they do that in Italy). That was in 1932. He turned 93 today. Mind as clear as a bell. Physical condition okay. Talked to him today. Made me very happy.

@shoebillmansion.bsky.social Happy Birthday, Beth! 🎊🎁🎈

Happy Christmas to one and all! (yeah no they’re far from instagrammable but sooo good)

A French mouse riding a lobster to bring you all festive wishes of peace, joy, health and happiness. I couldn't ask for anything more.

And here‘s the solution for those interested in recognising: 1. the meaning of life 2. the Riemann Hypothesis 3. the shortest cash register queue ✨You‘re welcome. Happy Holidays✨

No plans for tonight? 👍Got you sorted👇

Woke up with waking on my mind www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43333/...

“I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.” For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

#Smallpoemsunday and a prayer for today from Giuseppe Ungaretti Joy of Shipwreck And suddenly the voyage resumes

heart . of stone

Truly the 🐐of American verse.

· "Red-haired Man on a Chair" 1962 Lucian Freud

Filippo Balbi, the man who took “You* were always on my mind” literally. *and you. And you. And you. You too. You by all means. And you. And you. Aaaand you. And you. And you. And you. Omg and you. You very much so and you and andyouandyouandyouandyouan (I DARE you to zoom in on the painted head)

Endre Tót, AUDIO VISUAL RAIN, 1972 www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/05...

Friends, Romans, countrymen! Pleased to inform you I’m officially safe. A.

Irma Hünerfauth

Twelfth Ocean

Nestor ΝΟΟΣ, assemblage #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #Sculpture

“At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle, …… And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle, And the whole business is unbelievable dreadful, if you’re single.” 📕Wendy Cope, A Christmas Poem 📸 Taku Kumabe #BookWormSat #poetry #Christmas

“Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas Cos’ turkeys just wanna have fun Turkeys are cool, turkeys are wicked And every turkey has a Mum.” ✍️ Benjamin Zephaniah, Talking Turkeys 🖊️ Remedios Varo, Christmas Turkey #BookWormSat #poetry #Christmas

Day of the White Glare

“ If the guy exists why doesn’t he ever show himself and prove it? ………. Yeah, but actually, I’ve got the same questions about God.” 📒 Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes #BookWormSat #Christmas

“Well, I suppose I should be grateful, you’ve obviously gone to a lot of trouble and expense -or maybe off your head. Yes, I did like the birds - the small ones anyway” ✍️ Dave Calder, On the thirteenth day of Christmas my true love phoned me up #BookWormSat #poetry #Xmas

Sensible limitation in view of soon-to-be probable excesses

Immortal verses. Enjoy.

Would like to confirm

“Clouds of graphite in the atmosphere, like a sort of evil lemon.” Tell me more/tell me more/tell me more

Seasonal ritual. #grickledoodle #holidays #gifts #dogs #cats #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

‘Multiply yourself by zero’ = new entry in my top ten favourite (silent!) insults

Henri Matisse, French (1869-1954), La torsem et native nue / Quelle soie aux baumes de temps (What Silk with Balms of Time) (plate, page 147) from Poésies (Poems), Stéphane Mallarmé, 1932, etching, composition (irreg.): 26.5 x 20 cm, page (irreg.), 33.4 x 25.5 cm, MoMA, New York City New York, USA

Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt. Rest in power, Rosa von Praunheim

Toucan, deconstructed

justanothermasterpiece: Kurt Schwitters. (via ulfgbohlin)

If you haven't read Brigid Brophy, then do investigate! I doubt she'd thank me, but I think of her as nestling provocatively between Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch, with the sly, sometimes savage irony of the former, and the latter's bustling care for her characters. The Snow Ball is my favourite.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Lots of Schrödinger‘s stomach bug going around (not sick/not not sick). Beware