April 2012
163 posts
Journal of a Nobody: Psalm, by Wisława Szymborska... →
journalofanobody:
Oh, the leaky boundaries of man-made states!
How many clouds float past them with impunity;
how much desert sand shifts from one land to another;
how many mountain pebbles tumble onto foreign soil
in provocative hops!
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Need I mention every single bird that flies in the face of…
He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again:...
– James Joyce. Dubliners (via yochanah)
it is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships,...
– Anthony Storr - Solitude: A Return To The Self (via hnamed)
“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible...
– (via miamou)
Along the river, over the hills, in the ground, in the sky, spring work is going...
– John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra (via litverve)
In moments of temptation or indecision - for example, when the man who has...
– Sartre, 1943 (via emmabutton)
prostheticknowledge:
CHANNELER by Ohashi Takashi
Japanese Hip-Hop video using abstract and dynamic text art:
This animation is a visual music with Japanese HIPHOP. Is a video using the scripts (Japanese , English and symbols ) and abstract animation. Theme is the “word”. This animation story, depicts the life of a Japanese man. People can learn a variety of words (polite form and...
You Will Hear Thunder
You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think:...
– (via journalofanobody)
When the heart weeps for what is lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found.
– ~Sufi Proverb (via iheartloons)
Having perfected our disguise,
we spend our lives searching for someone
we...
– Robert Brault
(via shaktilover)
Dos miradas se cruzan
Y canta un árbol nuevo
Dos manos se entrelazan
Dos...
– Vicente Huidobro (via erikafeina)
We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the empty space within the vessel...
– From Lao Tzu, ‘Tao Te Ching’ , c.550 BC (via jamespattullo)
The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and...
– Johann Joachim Winckelmann (via peano)
A soft liquid joy flowed through the words where the soft long vowels hurtled...
– James Joyce, Portrait (via superfluidity)
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of...
– Tom Robbins - Still Life With Woodpecker (via brooklyn-forester)