Camelia

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

“Today I am tempted to begin life in a new language.”

—Canetti

[Solas @solas_na_greine]

Gerard David, The Annunciation (detail), c.1506

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

saves me every time

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

"You are always my concern, I ponder a great deal on it and speak to you and take your strange, dark head between my hands and want to push the stones off your chest...”

- Ingeborg Bachmann to Paul Celan 🖤

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Let your language be for you what the body is for lovers. It alone separates beings and unite them.

- Motto of literary magazine founded by Schiller and Goethe

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

You Can't Have It All – such a gorgeous poem https://t.co/utICm9MhNI

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

Jessica Hagedorn

[Love Music @khnh80044]

So beautiful! This video was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961 ❤❤❤

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

An end is always punishment for a beginning.

- Dean Young, “The Infirmament”

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Victor Brauner, Portrait du côté miroir

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

"The meaning of life... clearly has to do with love — what and whom and how one can love."

Oliver Sacks on despair and the meaning of life: https://t.co/oVOdnJnhNJ

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

I am you when I am I.

- Paul Celan, "In Praise of Distance" (1948)

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

I am almost asleep in it. You, over there, constabular trees. Your
hand on my wastedness. Your hand on my stem.

- Elizabeth Willis, “In Flowers Concealed”

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Always remember...

• Emily Dickinson •

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Jim Henson, Frank Oz and Don Sahlin showing off how to make various characters with a "whatnot/anything" muppet, 1969

[Trampoline Poetry @TrampolinePoet1]

Christian Hawkey from The Book of Funnels.

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

"We can change, evolve, and transform our own conditioning. We can choose to move like water rather than be molded like clay."

This: https://t.co/8J9XUxHKC1

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Pedunculate oaks are famous for living hundreds of years developing massive, gnarled trunks and wide, spreading canopies. When you gaze upward, the interwoven branches create a soaring cathedral of light