Ich schreibe es dir
vom Weizen
meiner Rastlosigkeit,
von der Sommersekunde,
da ich dich traf,

ich schreibe es dir
vom Geheimnis,
das tapfer auf
den Hügeln altert,

von unseren auf immer
verknüpften Händen,
lächelnd gegen
jeden Regen

Dirk Schulte
aus 'Was du mir bist'

Joan Miró 🎨 ( 20 de Abril 1893 - 25 de Diciembre 1983 ).
El Jardín, 1925.

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

John Steinbeck

Give me back my broken night
My mirrored room, my secret life
It's lonely here
There's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
Over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby
That's an order
Leonard Cohen, 'The Future'
youtu.be/8WlbQRoz3o4?si…

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

📷 UK Film Council

Richte dich nicht länger nach der Welt.
Richte dich nach dem Licht,
das in deinem Herzen tanzt.
Dann werden deine Augen funkeln,
wo andere die Hoffnung verlieren.

- Paul Ferrini -

'Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we been so dependent on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense...'

Hannah Arendt

'There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more'
Lord Byron, 1788-1824
mezzotint by Charles Turner

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What if our Earth is the hell of some other planet?

Aldous Huxley. Counterpoint.

Nick Alm

When the path ignites the soul,
there's no remaining...

The foot touches ground,
but not for long.
-Hakim Sanai

David Hockney/Going Up Garrowby Hill 2000

'All great and precious things are lonely.'

John Steinbeck / East of Eden

📷Pierre Pellegrini

'Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.'

Henry David Thoreau
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Albert Camus with his daughter, Catherine, in Greece, 1958.

»Als ich Deinen Brief las…glaubte ich, es gäbe für mich und für alles Heilung nur bei Dir.«

Franz Kafka an Felice Bauer, 17.4.1913

Shirley Bassey
Yesterday When I Was Young
youtu.be/b6JlKoh1bNY?si…

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism,” --

Hannah Arendt

Happy Birthday, Julie Christie !! #botd
David Bailey 📸

📸 Man Ray ( 1890 - 1976 ).
Observatory Time - The Lovers, 1936.

A poem is done when it stops bothering me. That is my definition of doneness.

—Mary Ruefle

'When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.'
Anaïs Nin , 1903-1977