September 2011
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“I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It’s the last meaning,...”
– Sam Savage, Poets & Writers Sept/Oct 2011 (via lesmotsjustes)
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and as it's going
elina-astra:
And as it’s going often at love’s breaking, The ghost of first days came again to us, The silver willow through window then stretched in, The silver beauty of her gentle branches. The bird began to sing the song of light and pleasure To us, who fears to lift looks from the earth, Who are so lofty, bitter and intense, About days when we were saved together.
Anna Akhmatova
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Art by Montana Black: Catch / Release →
Although this topic does not directly address poetry or fiction writing, it does touch upon an approach to life that writers and artists, and individuals, in general, may find helpful.
I encourage you to reblog this so others might benefit from reading it.
montanablackart:
Catch / Release
I have dealt with depression most of my life. Early on I was taught the lesson of how to nurture loss; how...
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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a...”
– Robert Frost (via virtutes-vitia)
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puddlenotes:
the remains of summer i. my brother playing on the piano, “we’re so close but we’re so far away…” (the words folded within the music tinge the melody with melancholy) ii. my fingers reach out for something, or nothing, as if lost in a dream iii. the last of the blueberries staining my mouth with bittersweet melodies iv. “it rains / and it rains… ...
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“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that...”
– Pablo Picasso (via cougarchild)
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“For the lover of poetry, there is a disequilibrium between himself [or herself]...”
– Brenda Hillman (via Damon McLaughlin @ Best American Poetry–Thank You, Brenda Hillman | Present Everywhere, Visible Nowhere)
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“I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen...”
– Leonard Cohen (via thismessylife)
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“Before art can be human it must learn to be brutal.”
– J.M. Synge (via awritersruminations)
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Let me tell you, he wrote, about Magnetic... →
puddlenotes:
Let me tell you, he wrote, about Magnetic Resonance Imaging, radio waves pulsing within the depths of the body. The body is everywhere treated as mere surface: the cult of beauty, of youth, the existence of pornography – these are banal reductions, a fetish of surfaces. But the wise and the lunatic, the artist and the child, all know better. Under the skin is a noisy tumultous...
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“As in the ancient verse, I’m happy
for ‘this immense fortune of knowing you’...”
– by António Franco Alexandre translated by Virtutes&Vitia (via virtutes-vitia)
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“(S)he had outgrown her library as one outgrows a waistcoat. Libraries can in...”
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books
(invisiblestories)
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to let go of live...
elina-astra:
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of live. In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast.
Rumi
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“One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the...”
– Joseph Campbell; The Power of Myth (via montanablackart)
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