Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy.And often we attack and make ourselves enemies,to conceal that we are vulnerable. - Friedrich Nietzsche,Thus Spoke Zarathustra

There’s a part of me that wants to let problems go for a while, let a piece of writing simmer and percolate, in the hope that my unconscious will take care of it. That the solution will come. And I think that’s useful up to a point… -- Robert Hass

What is the obligation of the writer to the society in which she / he lives and breathes? It is to tell the truth, someone says.

I don’t spiral. I retrograde.

If you are writer, you know this state of mind when you are so deep in a writing and thinking flow that nothing disturbs you. Not even a visiting white horse on your lawn and a rider saluting you. #writingsky

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Creation of the Birds https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19623

Mary O'Malley's 'Horse' from The Shark Nursery (Carcanet Poetry).

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“Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged against provisions against danger, real or pretended from abroad.” James Madison in a letter to Thomas Jefferson

Quitter l'autre ce n'est pas partir. Ce n'est pas si simple. Quitter l'autre c'est : ne plus espérer qu'il revienne. Ainsi, cher amour, cent fois de toi je me suis éloigné, échappé ou enfui, sans jamais te QUITTER. - Lucas Clavel

Ne te précipite pas – Ce qui t’appartient arrivera. — Rûmî . Eternal Eclipse - Hypernova youtu.be/GAj0gEBo8dg?... 📷 Hans Jacob Haarseth

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

"Whose diligent shoulders can henceforth sustain this immense and fissured sky, which we fear, for the second time in a long history, will fall on our heads?" ― Michel Serres, The Natural Contract #BookSky

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” — John Dewey, How We Think

“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

Nothing is as it seems.

surrounded by whispered messages in the purple night #thebeautyofnature #shadesofgrey #monochrome #flowerstalking_bw #twilightphotography

"Stjärnorna", a poem written by Karin Boye, and translated by David McDuff. .

And so it was: there was no fall, no cry, not even a goodbye. Only this clean estrangement, this quiet way of not coming back.

Stay where you are Stay with your ghosts I’ll carry mine alone ...🎶 Eileen Noise - You Weren’t There youtu.be/nGg6zhh-4WA?... 📷 Gary Heller

Paul Cézanne 'Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffan' (circa 1885-1886) #postcardfromlea

It’s the same treadmill, spinning faster.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time. ~Diane Ackerman

#MelvilleMonday "Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." – Melville (Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs) [+]

Ton message à la Grande Ourse La trajectoire de la course L'instantané de velours Même s'il n'sert à rien Le vent l'emportera Tout disparaîtra Le vent nous portera ...🎶 Sophie Hunger - Le Vent Nous Portera youtu.be/DmXh5_TB42g?... 📷 Jean-Luc Billet

The heart swaddled in thorns.

"La solitude, ça ne m'impressionne pas du tout. Au contraire, j'aime bien ça, ça ressemble à la vie réelle. Quand l'instant est grave, important ou difficile, on est seul, toujours." ___________________Olivier de Kersauson

old friends

You are exhausted, sweet one, exhausted from all the trying and the not trying, and you are struggling to trust life again....

Man Ray - Sleeping Woman, 1930

Once Upon A Time In America 1984 🎬

A vous ces vers de par la grâce consolante De vos grands yeux où rit et pleure un rêve doux, De par votre âme pure et toute bonne, à vous Ces vers du fond de ma détresse violente. Paul Verlaine (30 mars 1844 - 8 janv. 1896) 🖤🌟

"May I be frank?" "Is that your name?" "No, my name is Godfrey" "Alright, be frank" Celebrating the sublime Jean Dixon and her wonderful deadpan delivery, who died today in 1981. With William Powell in My Man Godfrey (1936). 🎬

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. by Federico Fellini

The fire danced in her eyes. The flames swam, flared up, sank away, brightened again against the sooty stone, against the dark sky, against the pale sky, the gulfs of evening, the depths of air and light beyond the world.

What people did before the interwebs.

'Moon (slips away .. ) Oil Paint Sketch

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Vase with Irises Against a Yellow Background made in 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh. It is preserved in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It is one of the works done while he was admitted to the psychiatric clinic in Saint-Rémy, a town near Arles.

Arooj Aftab - Mohabbat youtu.be/iRZ98HX1MO8?... 💙🎶

Out from the liar's mouth comes A string of honey coated lies, Stories meant to entrance them and others. But be careful, because they don't know the fate of liars. The selfish wanderlust that a liar has, Can't be sated so they go off spinning their tales!

🖼️ John Leigh Pemberton

Book Cover of the Day:

From oral storytelling to illustrated books, fairy tales have been shared and reshaped for generations. Explore the stories and objects featured in our new Fairy Tales Exhibition link.bl.uk/ngw

An exquisite poem that finds Pathos and Carpe Diem shaking hands like old friends. A.E. Housman 🖎