a circle in the sky

'Philosophy is written in that grand book—I mean the universe—which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written.'

— Galileo Galilei
The Assayer

“On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.”

— Charlotte Brontë

Every movement reveals us.

Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

💜 JOHN KEATS
Died on this day, in 1821

“No one has ever died as far as I’m concerned and it’s rare that anyone is living, except in the theater of my thoughts.”

—Bachmann, Malina (tr. Boehm)

I first read Malina as a teenager (in Jaccottet’s French translation). Revisiting it now.

Nature and History are the opposite extreme terms of man’s range of possibilities, whereby he is enabled to order the actualities about him as a picture of the world.

Oswald Spengler
The Decline of the West 3.2

‘Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul,
and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.’

John Keats

Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds 1818

'Every bliss achieved is a masterpiece.'

Marguerite Yourcenar

📷'Realm'
Anna Marcell

'wisdom of all medicines is the panacea,” writes callimachus in the epigrams. “and one becomes wise from another, both in past times and at present,” says bacchylides in the pæans; “for it is not very easy to find the portals of unutterable words.”

'The weight of your own killed a weight which closes innocence for ever because they are so many.'

— John Berger on the final and seventh level of despair, describing life in Palestine, from 'Hold Everything Dear - Dispatches on Survival and Resistance' (2001)

Mark Rothko. 1969

digital painting

Snow storm brewing🌬️❄️❄️❄️
Happy Friday!

Guten Abend😍

calm the light

C'est Vendredi 🌤 🎶🍸🫒 🇨🇦 ✌️