Poetry.
The earth […] seethes with wounds.
—MARTIN ROBBINS — A Refrain of Roses, (1965)
Yes, there is probably no better way to describe the present.
Beauty, that is supposed to represent pain, isn’t that somehow perverse? Hmm..
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Dark and sweet, an amazing combination
Mixed feelings
Ecrire, c’est aussi ne pas parler. C’est se taire. C’est hurler sans bruit.
—Marguerite Duras
“Eternal whispers, glooms, the birth, life, death Of unseen flowers in heavy peacefulness;”
—John Keats, Endymion: Book I
True beauty lasts forever ♾
O sweetie, I very much wish Duras to be wrong in this case. As for Keats I’m incapable of doubting.
and if you care anything for football, congratulations on today’s victory over your neighbor to the immediate north.
“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
—John Muir
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“You are no longer trembling, carcass.” This summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass. The earth, draped in its verdant cloak, makes as little impression upon me as a ghost. It is living and ceasing to live which are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
—Andre Breton, Le Manifeste du Surréalisme (1924)
Imagine people who still had manifestos