Lena’s Olio

“Keeping an eye on the world going by my window”

[Lena’s Olio @Lenas_Olio]

I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want.
And why do I want?
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.
~Sylvia Plath

[LiteraryVienna @LiteraryVienna]

"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."

Alain de Botton

[La femme merveilleuse invisible @larwoolf]

On Roberto Rossellini birthday
1906–1977

"Journey to Italy" (1954)
Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman,George Sanders
Viaggio in Italia

Following a famous letter from the Hollywood star expressing her admiration, the two began a collaborative and romantic relationship.

[Nella @gigi_dreamer]

"Of two sisters
one is always the watcher,
one the dancer."

Louise Glück / Descending Figure

📷Deborah Sheedy

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
(Art by Inga Moore)

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

“If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.”
― Charles Simic, who was born on this day in 1938

[Monica AS @_monica_as]

“Make your interests gradually wider and
more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls
of the ego recede, and your life becomes
increasingly merged in the universal life.”

~ Bertrand Russell, “How to Grow Old”
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© Casentino, Italy by Armando Baglioni

[Ina de Bree @InadeBree]

‘Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.’

Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, 62 - 65 AD

Marta Glińska

[C.P. Cavafy @CCavafy]

“For what would you exchange the Nobel Prize you have just been awarded?”

Seamus Heaney: “For one more poem. Or for Cavafy’s soul!”

– From an interview with Seamus Heaney, who was born #OTD 13 April, 1939.

[Nella @gigi_dreamer]

"Existence is not an end in itself but merely the framework upon which all good, both real and imagined, may be built."

Simone Weil / "Simone Weil: An Anthology"

📷Anneke Balvert Photo-Art

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

[Policy, Prose, War, and Peace @Policy_Prose]

When the shadows lengthened, when darkness seemed to be falling, it was Churchill who said, “No, evil would not prevail.”
-Jon Meacham

#churchill #WritingCommunity #history

[Ina de Bree @InadeBree]

‘I needed my mistakes
in their order
to get me here.’

W.S. Merwin, The Moon Before Morning, 2014

Jean Seberg by Peter Bash, 1961

[Paul Holdengraber @holdengraber]

"Never think you've seen the last of anything.”
~ Eudora Welty

[C.P. Cavafy @CCavafy]

“I began reading Cavafy when I was quite young. I found his poetry so vivid, so personal, so beautiful, so powerful that I was aware of being in the presence of a great poet, one whose concerns echoed mine and whose mastery was thrilling.”

– Edward Albee on C.P. Cavafy.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“The great thing in life, Jeeves, if we wish to be happy and prosperous, is to miss as many political debates as possible.”

P.G. Wodehouse, Much Obliged, Jeeves

[Paul Holdengraber @holdengraber]

"One doesn't always have to speak."
~ Hannah Arendt

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

"In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two."

— Hannah Arendt

[Fredrik C D Kruhsberg @FredrikKbg1]

"So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells."
Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013

[Ina de Bree @InadeBree]

‘All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence. (…) God’s one and only voice is silence.’

Herman Melville

Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, 1852

Albarrán Cabrera, The Mouth of Krishna, 2019

[In Libro Veritas @InlibroV]

“There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.”

W.H. Auden