gute nacht… land der träume

📷 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Clown, ca. 1886-87.

“Here is another beginning now, so I change beginnings as one changes gear.” —Jacques Derrida

Funny enough to be noticed, serious enough to be misunderstood…..

“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” — Simone de Beauvoir, attributed in Successful Aging: A Conference Report, by Eric Pfeiffer

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." – Charles Simic .

"Sometimes dances are left unfinished." ~The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern 🐝 🔑 🗡️

Edwin Dickinson Cottage Porch, Peaked Hill (1932)

Louise Gluck

L'inaccompli bourdonne d'essentiel. -René Char

All these things are not without their meanings.

#monday Mood...

#goodnight But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know. – Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life .

Pomme - La Lumière youtu.be/b_E0pqf_Ht0?...

I would quarrel with mathematics, and say that the sum of zeros is a dangerous number. – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec .

©️Laura Makabresku

neobaroque.tumblr.com/post/8113884... Han Cao

Frais @talitres.bsky.social Tamise 🎶 Far Enough To Die youtu.be/_pfGUVI2jNc?...

this situation of mine was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes

Even the moon seems to linger longer at my window as my unspoken feelings bloom beneath the night sky…..

My Blue Mind. ‘Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.’ W. H. Auden.

my love is a sparrow that flits between trees a nest in my soul #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku

The faery forest glimmered Beneath an ivory moon, The silver grasses shimmered Against a faery tune. The Faery Forest Sara Teasdale 𝖨𝖽𝖺 𝖱𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗈𝗎𝗅 𝖮𝗎𝗍𝗁𝗐𝖺𝗂𝗍𝖾 #BookWormSat

“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.” - Igor Stravinsky “I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.” - Edvard Grieg “Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them.” - Richard Strauss

Esther Sarto Losing you

Being disliked by people with ugly spirits is divine protection.

Yes, Emily Dickinson, Time never did assuage.

Saudade - Gabriel Albuquerqüe youtu.be/winLlid4CMo?... .

It's worth reflecting on this quote from time to time ... In social networks, the function of "friends" is primarily to heighten narcissism by granting attention, as consumers, to the ego exhibited as a commodity. – Byung-Chul Han, Müdigkeitsgesellschaft

Jay Wright

J. M. W. Turner’s “A Boat and Red Buoy in a Rough Sea” (c. 1835-40). Out of _Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and his Contemporaries_ (The Holburne Museum, Bath, 2025). Barely a splash of red paint, buoy like an afterthought. I love the title: how it reduces the immediate world to its essence.

“The innocence of hands, ever-renewed. A memory comes back to him: the touch of a hand, intimate in the dark. But whose hand? Hands emerging like animals, without shame, without memory, into the light of day.” J. M. Coetzee, The Master of Petersburg, 1994.

Tenderness does not choose its own uses. It goes out to everything equally, circling rabbit and hawk. Look: in the iron bucket, a single nail, a single ruby— all the heavens and hells. They rattle in the heart and make one sound. – Jane Hirshfield ( Late Prayer ) . youtu.be/CrR-pJzvMQ0?...

Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still? ~ Calvin Coolidge .

So tender are my thoughts of you Still warm after the glow The stones are too soft to throw... Sophie Zelmani - Memory Loves You youtu.be/23DhWZmI_M8?... .

The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her. I let her go. I let her go Diminished and flat, as after radical surgery. How your bad dreams possess and endow me. (Sylvia Plath) #art #poetry #sylviaplath

Anaïs Boudot

I am alone in a hostile world.” ~ Virginia Woolf, The Waves . Sofie Conte Art

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. Mason Cooley 📷 siavosh ejlali

the moon never means to break my heart, but she always does

Herman Hesse

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"Theory is good, but it does not prevent things from existing." - Jean-Martin Charcot

“We look on the dark side,” said Neary. “It is undeniably less trying to the eyes.” — Samuel Beckett, Murphy

“come, let me take you by the hand / and show you the furrows of time” Lucian Blaga

#MECFS #couplet The elusive voice Of eternal hope

summer breeze~ the path home through tall grass #haiku

"The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Rob Pointon Climb up the Orme, 2026 Oil On Linen

“The consolation of this world is that there are no continuous sufferings. A pain disappears and a joy is reborn.” — Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1942-1951