“Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
While you were sad
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Vastness
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Carl Sagan
Art – Marc Chagall, The three candles
Imagination
“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
William Blake died on this day in 1827 and left us some of the most beautiful art and poetry of the Earth and the Imagination.
Visions
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– C.G. Jung
Art by Walter Sigmund Hampel.
The sea
‘O Man, so long as you are free you will cherish the sea!
The sea is your looking glass; you contemplate your own soul
in the infinite unfolding of its waves, while your mind is a no less bitter gulf.’
– Charles Baudelaire, 1852
Art by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky.
Dreams…
“Dreams are our daily practice of madness.”
– Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo: Where There’s Love, There’s Hate, 1946
Art by Anton Lomaev.
Stars
“What makes night within us may leave stars.”
― Victor Hugo
Art by John Velez.
Solitude
“There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.”
– Pablo Neruda
Art – Raffaello Sorbi – An Italian Girl with Doves
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Spillwords – A place to spill thoughts through words. A literary press where one can read, share, submit and gain a door to the world through writing.
Fear
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Art by Joanna Karpowicz.
