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The Poetess of the Nennymoans

[ravenousreader @RRavenousreader]

@ELSmith1994 @Implode_Optical @WizztheSmith @ColinVanW The reader's experience of drowning in sea/see symbolism reinforces the symbolism of drowning as a greenseeing metaphor! See purple headings 'Drowning as a metaphor for greenseeing' & 'Bran's phenomenology of greenseeing' in my original Nennymoan musings:
https://t.co/qPtP1dMFrK

[Mary-Ann Thorson𐃆 @NoctrnlValkyrie]

#Caturday #CaturdayEve
“You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.”
― William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals

[The Wonder of Tolkien @TolkienWonder]

“If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth...and I also was born with a great love of trees."

- Tolkien (1966 Interview)

[ravenousreader @RRavenousreader]

“She denied to the end
the source of the cataracts on her eyes
the cracked & suppurating skin of her finger-ends
till she could no longer hold a test-tube or a pencil

She died a famous woman denying
her wounds
denying
her wounds came from the same source as her power.”

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

— Marie Curie

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

"If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint."

(Edward Hopper)

(Edward Hopper, Room by the Sea, 1951)

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

”I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”

•Virginia Woolf

[ravenousreader @RRavenousreader]

“A shadow emerged from the dark of the wood….
The Other said something in a language that Will did not know; his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking.”
A Game Of Thrones, Prologue
GEORGE RR MARTIN
@WizztheSmith @thedragonLML

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Kai Skye

[Giorgio @perennialmystic]

"Leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea."

~ Shunryu Suzuki

[ravenousreader @RRavenousreader]

@TimothyDSnyder ‘E pluribus, unum”… ‘Out of many, one.’
—The ‘one’ proceeds out of many, not vice versa.*
*
“Who has done his day’s work? who will soonest be through with his supper?
Who wishes to walk with me?
Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?”
WALT WHITMAN 🇺🇸

[ravenousreader @RRavenousreader]

A Dance with Dragons - Tyrion I
"Slaver's Bay is a long way from Pentos." Tyrion speared a goose liver on the point of his knife...
"This is so," Illyrio agreed, "but the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.”

[Tolkien Proverbs @TolkienProverbs]

Great as your affairs may seem to you, they are only a small strand in the great web. GANDALF.

[Hollow Crown Fans @HollowCrownFans]

"Give me my fan. What, minion, can ye not?" - Henry VI pt2 (A1, S3) #ShakespeareSunday

[Saganism @Saganismm]

It’s a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and study, I find that I have no more to offer by way of advice than ‘Try to be a little kinder.’

— Aldous Huxley

[ravenousreader @RRavenousreader]

@HermannHessed @rebeca6169 ‘The way’ inevitably ends in death. But, yes, one can make a memorable speech before the hourglass is up!

[ravenousreader @RRavenousreader]

It only bends because *we bend* it ourselves. I’m convinced that’s what he meant. 🇺🇸 @SandraM440

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

"My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

[ravenousreader @RRavenousreader]

@OutlawsPoetic

[ravenousreader @RRavenousreader]

@LFC_Tandy Defense wins championships. Ask the Springboks… 😉

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

"Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world."

~ Peter Wessel Zapffe

[ravenousreader @RRavenousreader]

A Dance with Dragons - Bran III
He cannot see me, Bran realized, despairing. He wanted to reach out and touch him, but all that he could do was watch and listen. I am in the tree. I am inside the heart tree, looking out of its red eyes, but the weirwood cannot talk, so I can't.

[Kerry Jazmine @KGullic]

"We all were sea-swallowed" The Tempest #ShakespeareSunday

[ravenousreader @RRavenousreader]

“‘Poiesis’ (from Ancient Greek ποίησις) is the act of creation, ‘making,’ or bringing something into being that didn’t exist before.”
— Poetry is a verb, not a noun.
Ginsberg, one of the worst poets, truly understands what poetry is! Ironically, I always return to him…

[ravenousreader @RRavenousreader]

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”
ALLEN GINSBERG