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Faiz Ahmad Faiz, from A Lover to his Beloved (tr. by Khalid Hasan)

#faiz ahmad faiz, #pakistani literature, #poetry, #literature

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megairea·6 hours agoQuote

Bertolt Brecht, from “O you great trees” (tr. by Tom Kuhn & David Constantine)

We are very lonely and that’s all right.
We never have a light, not even ghosts approach us.
And if we did: what would we do with light?

#bertolt brecht, #german literature, #poetry, #literature

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megairea·18 hours agoQuote

Octavio Paz, from The Dialectic of Solitude; The Labyrinth of Solitude & Other Writings (tr. by Lysander Kemp), 1950

What we ask of love (which, being desire, is a hunger for communion, a will to fall and to die as well as to be reborn) is that it give us a bit of true life, of true death. We do not ask it for happiness or repose, but simply for an instant of that full life in which opposites vanish, in which life and death, time and eternity are united.

#octavio paz, #The Labyrinth of Solitude & Other Writings, #essays, #mexican literature, #literature

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megairea·19 hours agoQuote

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (tr. by Margaret Jull Costa)

In a tangled way, the green of the trees is part of my blood. Inside me life beats in some distant heart… I was not meant for reality, it was life that sought me out.

#fernando pessoa, #the book of disquiet, #prose, #portuguese literature, #literature

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megairea·19 hours agoPhoto

archimaps:

The Café Bauer, Leipzig

#architecture

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megairea·a day agoQuote

Octavio Paz, from The Dialectic of Solitude; The Labyrinth of Solitude & Other Writings (tr. by Lysander Kemp), 1950

The pangs of love are pangs of solitude.

#octavio paz, #The Labyrinth of Solitude & Other Writings, #mexican literature, #essays, #literature

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megairea·a day agoQuote

Faiz Ahmad Faiz, from The Hour of Faithlessness (tr. by Naomi Lazard)

We will have forgotten the taste of loss
at the end of night.

#faiz ahmad faiz, #pakistani literature, #poetry, #literature

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megairea·a day agoText

gn05i5:

Imagine the secrets the trees are keeping

#text

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leschateauxdelafrance:

Château de la Fortelle
Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux, Seine-et-Marne, France
17th century castle, destroyed in the 20th-centruy. Never rebuilt.

#architecture

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megairea·2 days agoQuote

Faiz Ahmad Faiz, from In Your Eyes and Mine (tr. by Naomi Lazard)

On the stars, ashes of the moon.
On the flowers, blood of still wet dew.

#faiz ahmad faiz, #pakistani literature, #poetry, #literature

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megairea·2 days agoPhoto

Octavio Paz, from The Dialectic of Solitude; The Labyrinth of Solitude & Other Writings (tr. by Lysander Kemp), 1950

#octavio paz, #The Labyrinth of Solitude & Other Writings, #essays, #mexican literature, #literature

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Octavio Paz, from The Day of the Dead; The Labyrinth of Solitude & Other Writings (tr. by Lysander Kemp), 1950

If we do not die as we lived, it is because the life we lived was not really ours: it did not belong to us, just as the bad death that kills us does not belong to us. Tell me how you die and I will tell you who you are.

#octavio paz, #The Labyrinth of Solitude & Other Writings, #mexican literature, #essays, #literature

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megairea·2 days agoPhoto

deforest:

Even a man who is pure at heart and says his prayers by night
May become a wolf when the wolf bane blooms
And the moon is full and bright.
FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1943)

#cinema

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megairea·2 days agoQuote

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (tr. by Margaret Jull Costa)

Each person is merely his dream of himself.

#fernando pessoa, #the book of disquiet, #portuguese literature, #prose, #literature

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megairea·2 days agoQuote

Faiz Ahmad Faiz, from Prison Meeting (tr. by Naomi Lazard)

The gift of this night is my faith that morning will come.
Ah, this faith which is larger than any pain,

#faiz ahmad faiz, #pakistani literature, #poetry, #literature

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megairea·3 days agoQuote

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (tr. by Margaret Jull Costa)

The dream is what is most truly, impenetrably, ineradicably ours. The Universe, Life — whether real or illusory — belongs to everyone, everyone can see what I see and possess what I possess or can, at least, imagine seeing or possessing it… But only I can see what I dream, only I can possess it.

#fernando pessoa, #the book of disquiet, #portuguese literature, #prose, #literature

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megairea·3 days agoQuote

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (tr. by Margaret Jull Costa)

[…] our greatest tragedies occur in our own idea of ourselves.

#Fernando Pessoa, #the book of disquiet, #portuguese literature, #prose, #literature

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leschateauxdelafrance:

Château de Vergers in Suilly-la-Tour

The original medieval fortress dates back to the XIVth century, built by the Varigny family, became soon the property of the Vergers family that held it more or less through centuries until Paul de Chabannes (Chabannes family married to Vergers in 1540) sold the domains and the forges to the monks of Chartreuse in 1714.

The castle was radically transformed and rebuilt in a neo-renaissance/gothic style around 1890. A very fancy transformation, the metal structure of the roof was designed by Gustav Eiffel, the decoration of the entrance gallery and the lounges were designed by Charles Garnier, architect of the Parisian Opera.

Private property these days

#architecture

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megairea·4 days agoQuote

Faiz Ahmad Faiz, from The Hour of Faithlessness (tr. by Naomi Lazard)

I ask my vagrant heart:
“Where is there to go now?
No one belongs to anyone at this hour.”

#faiz ahmad faiz, #pakistani literature, #poetry, #literature

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megairea·4 days agoQuote

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (tr. by Margaret Jull Costa)

I dream and behind me someone else is dreaming with me… Perhaps I am only the dream of that nonexistent Someone…

#fernando pessoa, #the book of disquiet, #portuguese literature, #prose, #literature

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