A bridge is a question between two certainties.

Odilon Redon’s “Buddha” floats between dream and silence: a face lit from within, untouched by the noise of the world. The drawing feels less like religion than memory itself—fragile, inward, and strangely awake in the dark.

Robert Rauschenberg at work, 1970s

I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us. ~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Certaines absences représentent un véritable triomphe. ~ Julio Cortázar, Marelle

Renuncio al pasado, a esos años pesados que me pisaban las huellas con zapatos prestados. El amanecer descubre caminos aún por pisar. Y yo, más leve que antes, ya sé qué pasos me llevan. Cris Fles ✍️

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. ~ Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner . Ane Brun - Words youtu.be/1tHCe7yW3UY?... 🖼 Collage "Empty Words" by Lindsay Stroud.

I ain't ever going back to thinking straight 'Cause twice (yeah, twice) Twice it brought me down, but it's the last time ...🎶 . Catfish and the Bottlemen - Twice youtu.be/E79WQnDAXVc?...

Labi Siffre - Crying Laughing Loving Lying youtu.be/o75BbNp8dLU?...

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ~ Rûmî . 🖼 Surreal collage entitled Elsinore, created by Aube Elléouët Breton

“I am a child who is getting on.” ~ Marc Chagall (1887–1985) #Painting by Marc Chagall, 1922.

Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world. — Warsan Shire

Someone once asked me: "What's worse? Loving someone you can't have, or having someone you can't love?" I replied: "The worst is leaving someone you know you'll never stop loving."

honesty in blue. fine art photography by © lynne henderson

This dewdrop world Is but a dewdrop world And yet. -Basho

Some men say an army of horse and some men say an army on foot and some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is what you love. -Sappho, trans. Anne Carson #everynightapoem as ever

Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back!

Illustration from William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist by Elisabeth Luther Cary, New York, 1902. #booksky #artsky

If you keep breaking other people's hearts, whatever religious duty you perform is of no use. ~ Shams Tabrizi

Jean-Pierre Cornet, The Reading (oil on canvas, 2021)

“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.” ― Dorothy Allison

Edouard Baldus Arles, Cloitre St. Trophime, ca. 1861 Albumen silver print from glass negative

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” ― Louisa May Alcott take care🍃💛

Tamotsu Funakoshi

Pythagoras on the purpose of life and the meaning of wisdom www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/06/p...

“No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.” — Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

#surrealart #art © Caitlyn Grabenstein - cult.class

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects. ~ Pierre Bourdieu

Pasquale Grasso, "Solitude" ft. Samara Joy youtu.be/nPv8yq88X24?...

It's possible to understand the world from studying a leaf. You can comprehend the laws of aerodynamics,mathematics,poetry and biology through the complex beauty of such a perfect structure. It's also possible to travel the whole globe and learn nothing. ~ Joy Harjo, The Woman Who Fell from The Sky

Half of life is lost in charming others. The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others. Leave this play. You have played enough. ~ Rûmî

Un dictateur n'a pas de concurrent à sa taille tant que le peuple ne relève pas le défi. ~ François Mitterrand

History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such domination. Which is another way of saying that history, the past, is larger than the present,

Letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be. ~ Luce Irigaray

#WhitmanWednesday 🌾 ~ Thought ~ Of Justice—as if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors, As if it might be this thing or that thing, according to decisions. - Walt Whitman, c. 1860–61

You've got to learn to show a happy face Although you're full of misery You mustn't show a trace of sadness Never look for sympathy You've got to learn although it's very hard ...🎶 . You've Got To Learn · Nina Simone youtu.be/1Pys0apPP4c?...

"Resist much, obey little." – Walt Whitman

“Regardless of specificity, solidarity always requires awareness, self-criticism, consciousness, the decision to act, and the need to create strategy, to build alliances, and to listen. It always requires taking chances, making mistakes, and trying again.” ― Sarah Schulman

Romanticism is precisely situated neither choice of subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling. - Charles Baudelaire

somewhere between knowing you entirely and still believing you’re a stranger to me

Ode à mon faible cœur Responsable et coupable De cet attachement Attentat de l’âme Vainement J’y ai puisé colère et tristesse Sans parvenir à tarir le bleu de tes yeux À estomper le rouge passion silencieux

It is amazing how much knowledge we have of hope. Whisper bravely into the dark, heart — whisper bravely. ~ Simon Ortiz . 📷 Emmanuel Knibbe

#goodnight “So much easier than facing people… I walk, talking to the moon…” ~ Sylvia Plath, Journals . Sting - Sister Moon youtu.be/QZLvDhTtONU?... . 🖼 Johann Peter Hasenclever

Sátántangó, released in cinemas in 1994, has a running time of 7 hours and 19 minutes. Béla Tarr made it using long takes shot in real locations, building a work with an extremely slow and continuous rhythm.

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts—such is the duty of the artist." ~ Robert Schumann (1810-1856) #Photography, Pablo Picasso as he created a light drawing, 1949.

Each soft moonbeam remembers you, each star bends nearer to the sea, and all my heart, like rain on heather, falls where you are meant to be. #vss365

Gregory Porter’s GRAMMY-winning album "Take Me To The Alley" was released 10 years ago today in 2016! A limited-edition 10th anniversary color vinyl release including the new Rules Remix of "Holding On" comes out this Friday, May 8: gregoryporter.lnk.to/TMTTA10th

In the Dunhuang murals of the Mogao Caves, the Nine-Colored Deer (九色鹿) glows between legend and faith: white-antlered, many-hued, and wise enough to speak like a human. Though born from Indian Buddhist lore, it became beloved in Northern Wei China as a sacred guardian 1/3

So I let them have their little victories which they need far more than I do. ~ Charles Bukowski (Everybody talks too much)