"Obsessions are the most durable form of intellectual capital." - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence.” Toni Morrison

March https://www.wikiart.org/en/theodor-severin-kittelsen/march-1890

Cuantas más cosas leo sobre escribir/escritura más convencida estoy de que lo cambias por leer/lectura y lo que sea que se enuncia funciona exactamente igual. Exactamente igual de bien o de mal, pero funciona.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life’s mysteries, but to deepen them. -- Jerry Uelsmann

Sometimes he seems about to foresee himself as understanding that he has already written all the fiction that could have been required of him.” Gerald Murnane, “The White Cattle of Uppington”, 1995.

“Sometimes he seems about to foresee himself as disregarding all considerations other than that he must write a certain piece of fiction and after that piece many other pieces of fiction. [+]

buena sintaxis

"Una extraña simetría habita el pensamiento." —Pascal Quignard

Today, I dream of Norway and read Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge 'it must happen'

"No diré nada pero habrá señales"

Everything going well.

#birdbot

«En el amor, en el luto y en la infancia no se habla de corrido: la voz apenas sale, se repiten las cosas, se balbucea, se duda: eso es poesía.» -German Carrasco, 2011.

Aspiration https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/aspiration-1960

Don’t want to be free want to be with you. —Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson Eres libre allí donde no te aman. —La provincia del hombre, Elias Canetti tu cherches la liberté totale mais c’est la solitude totale que tu as —Sans toit ni loi, Agnès Varda

"My identifying features / are rapture and despair." - Wislawa Szymborska, Sky

«the missed meeting that is life» ❤️‍🔥

🖤🖤 It’s from The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos (trans. Costa & Ferrari)

Paisaje supone un sujeto que efectúe la reducción pero al mismo tiempo supone la exclusión del sujeto del paisaje. —Mario Montalbetti In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. —Mark Strand

prautaprau

K233.1 Bird has new clothes made: flies away without paying.

🐦 A history of the birds of Europe London: Groombridge and Sons ..., 1859-1863. [Source]

“Still, my allegiance to poetry, to art, is greater than my allegiance to knowledge and intelligence...” -- Mary Ruefle

«Hoy, 22 de enero, el cielo tiene color por primera vez. Al sur, un brillo amarillento atraviesa un azul transparente. Encima de nuestras cabezas brillan todavía todas las estrellas.» "Una mujer en la noche polar" Christiane Ritter Traduce Carles Andreu

“I do not know how to rid the world of evil, or whether one is simply supposed to endure it. But you are there and are having an effect, and the poems have an effect of their own and help to protect you—that is the answer and a counterbalance in this world.” — Ingeborg Bachmann to Paul Celan, 1958

D641.1.1 Girl as bird visits lover.

#birdbot

i love how you have to whisper in a library. there should be more whisper-only spaces. speak softly if you must speak at all

the nameless, unimaginable, silent form

“The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible.” -- Andrei Tarkovsky

Año nuevo, la vida sigue.

Hai catedrais por todas as partes e todo iso. Aquí queda un poema de Philip Larkin que traducín ao galego hoxe, e co que vos desexo un bo 2026. Vémonos da outra beira. jesus-cy.medium.com/auga-de-phil...

B143 Prophetic bird.

Blauet (Alcedo atthis) a la Reserva de Sebes (Flix)

these marvels (like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages

pinpinpinpangcapouuu

31 de diciembre de 1995. Hace 30 años se publicó la última tira de Calvin and Hobbes.

A1952 Creation of hoopoe.

tiptippiti ti tip

years ago—never mind how long precisely

Celan

1776: Frost, rain, rain, bright.

“O mal é banal O mistério maior é o mistério do bem” (Adília Lopes)