sky by Vincent Van Gogh
Akshay Vasu / Carel Fabritius / Anjum Choudhary / Franz Kafka / Charles Bukowski / Frederick Carl Frieseke / Ray Bradbury
The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau, 1865, Claude Monet
What has made me speak less with each passing day? I watch the dragonfly escape the lizard by inches and I decide to stay. I want my words and my life to escape death. So every time I try exaggerating my empathy , the insouciance, and the ability to extract only the bad side of my words and my life makes me edge closer to silence. I do not want to throttle my words to death.
“I don’t want you to go.”
What inspires you to express pain so well through words?
Pain
“I know you, and stare at you in silence.”
— Arthur Rimbaud, from ‘Flowerbeds of Amaranths’
Paul Cézanne - Pyramid of Skulls (1898-1900)
What has made me speak less with each passing day? I watch the dragonfly escape the lizard by inches and I decide to stay. I want my words and my life to escape death. So every time I try exaggerating my empathy , the insouciance, and the ability to extract only the bad side of my words and my life makes me edge closer to silence. I do not want to throttle my words to death.
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems; ‘Water’ by Wisława Szymborska tr. Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh
[ID: How light the raindrop’s contents are. /How gently the world touches me.]