Faiz

[Day @Daywrotethis]

A man who reads old books cannot be fully captured by modern stupidity. He has dead kings, prophets, poets, killers, saints, drunks, generals, and madmen whispering in his bloodstream. The feed has no chance against this.

[Edmund @Kulambq]

'When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.'

Czesław Miłosz

[✮ راينر براون @dondawastaken]

Never forget that you are the main data center. Drink water, and consume as much literature as possible.

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single life span, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again…”

— Mary Ruefle, Planet on the Table

[Jacob Wren @EverySongIveEve]

“I have always felt that I’m like a clown and that my life might work out like a tragedy, a clown’s tragedy.”
― Franz Kline

[Faiz @faizanakrams]

https://t.co/2HTmCaHjub

[Faiz @faizanakrams]

Environmental justice?

My man Shaman Ali Mirali was way ahead of his time when he dropped ‘Solar, Solar’. Bro was pushing renewable energy before climate conferences made it trendy.

[Karl Marx @marxhaunting]

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

[Jacob Wren @EverySongIveEve]

"The life of a filmmaker is one of scraps of plots sandwiched between the lack of means to fulfil them."
- Gina Apostol, Insurrecto

[Jacob Wren @EverySongIveEve]

"This sort of simultaneous awareness that there's nothing that really matters to us more than literature, and at the same time there's nothing that matters less on this sad, lonely planet than literature."
- Nell Zink

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“‘Optimists write badly.’ (Valéry.) But pessimists do not write.”

— Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster

[Jacob Wren @EverySongIveEve]

“The most tragic form of loss isn’t the loss of security; it’s the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.”
- Ernst Bloch

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

—Lucille Clifton

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“To come to oneself again means coming back to *the rest*. Coming back precisely to what is not oneself.”

(Paul Valéry, Analects)

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

Not everything I write is fully realized, it’s often only an attempt. And that is also a pleasure. Because I don’t want to grasp everything. Sometimes I want only to touch. And sometimes what I touch blossoms and then other people can grasp it with both hands.

— Lispector, 1968

[Lacan sans contexte @Lacan_nocontext]

Stones too know how to scream when need be.

[Gaza Poets Society @PoetsGaza]

New sorrow, new poem

[Faiz @faizanakrams]

The Promise of Happiness, Sara Ahmed

[Faiz @faizanakrams]

"There can be nothing more terrifying than getting what you want, because it is at this moment that you face what you want."

--Sara Ahmed

[Faiz @faizanakrams]

Freud argues that happiness "is quite incapable of being realized; all the institutions of the universe are opposed to it."