January 2010
36 posts
“So long as we have not managed to abolish any of the causes of human despair we...”
– Raoul Vaneigem
“You are too kind, much too kind. Where is the madness that you promised me?”
– Magnetic Fields, “No One Will Ever Love You” (via muscovite)
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the...”
– Anaïs Nin (via sizetoosmall)
Wild Geese
sizetoosmall:
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies...
“I advise you, my dear Hassein, not to put such questions to yourself yet. Do not...”
– Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson by G.I. Gurdjieff
“I don’t know what is the matter with me, my dear Grandfather, but your...”
– Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson by G.I. Gurdjieff
WatchLe café chanson,
poetbabble:
Who am I, you ask? I don’t know, my friend. I am all the languages I ever spoke, I am all the places I ever lived, I am all the people I ever met, I am all the women I ever loved, I am all the writers I ever read; I am all my ancestors – but at least they had the decency of never thinking of themselves as writers. Who am I, you ask? I don’t know, my friend; I don’t even know who is...
“After you have exhausted all what there is in business, politics, conviviality...”
– Walt Whitman
What I Have Learned So Far
poetbabble:
Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world? Because, properly attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion. Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit to no labor in its cause? I don’t think so. All summations have a beginning,...
“Athazagoraphobia”
– the fear of being forgotten (via cages-or-wings) (via thedrollhouse) (via poetbabble)
“I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.” - Antonin Artaud. (via pareidoliac)
Semantic satiation
poetbabble:
sizetoosmall:
Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
“‘You are not used to this kind of life; therefore the indications bypass...”
– Don Juan Matus to Carlos Castaneda, A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point,...”
– Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners. The Nature and Aim of Fiction. (via msodradek)
“Para min solo recorrer los caminos que tienen corazon, cualquier camino que...”
– Don Juan Matus
“To construct the present is to rectify the past, to change the psycho-geography...”
– Raoul Vaneigem - The Revolution of Everyday Life
“It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a...”
– E.M. Forster, Howards End, Chapter 4 (via rawrnold)
Interiors (Rilke) →
ewilcox:
Via The Paris Review, sixteen of twenty numbered sections from a piece composed by Rilke in 1898 (when he was 22) and never published in his lifetime.
That’s how it always is. People would sooner weave their dreams deep into the linens than let them grow up next to them into a life without enough sun for them to ripen. When you near your end, you leave your dreams behind in small and...
“Afinal, a melhor maneira de viajar é sentir.
Sentir tudo ele todas as maneiras....”
– Fernando Pessoa, Poesia de Álvaro de Campos. Afinal, a melhor maneira de viajar é sentir, (first stanza of the poem).
(via msodradek)
“Through the mind we must go to God.
What a crippling misfortune.”
– Rimbaud (via roundmyskull)
From Une saison en enfer. L’impossible (trans. Paul Schmidt):
Mon esprit, prends garde. Pas de partis de salut violents. Exerce-toi! - Ah! la science ne va pas assez vite pour nous!
- Mais je m’aperçois que mon esprit dort.
S’il était bien éveillé toujours à partir de...
“The nights you fight best
are when the knife is at your back,
the gun at your...”
– Charles Bukowski
“We must learn to topple the idols,
sex, car, bank account,
pride, domination,...”
– Octavio Paz