collected poems

in which the blogger collects poetry

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JOSEPH BEUYS: I LIKE AMERICA AND AMERICA LIKES ME

What we can learn from artist about race relations and how to heal a nation

[mapsontheweb]

Population Map of Norway in 1971.

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Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

Francis Picibia

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Locomotive

"Revolutions are the locomotive of history."- Karl Marx, The Class Struggles in France

“Put the locomotive into top gear and keep it on the rails.” - VI Lenin

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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville

[historicaltimes]

Austro-Hungarian troops executing Serbian civilians, likely ca. 1915.

via reddit

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Ars

by Leopold Staff

Look ahead sharply But don’t prophesy, Leave that to quacks. Difficult enough to portray what is. I write poems slowly, I labour like an ox. I am patient Like a trembling raindrop. Time always has time. The world’s as old as the world. Seeking novelty You will create nothing new.

15 Poems by Leopold Staff

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Death

by Bill Knott

Going to sleep, I cross my hands on my chest. They will place my hands like this. It will look as though I am flying into myself.

[natalia-goncharova]

Cyclist via Natalia Goncharova

Medium: oil on canvas

[mapsontheweb]

Inland and coastal municipalities of Norway.

[dailymarx]

Social relations are closely bound up with productive forces. In acquiring new productive forces men change their mode of production; and in changing their mode of production, in changing the way of earning their living, they change all their social relations.

Marx - Poverty of Philosophy 1847 (via dailymarx)

[huariqueje]

Dinner    -     Alejandra Caballero

Spanish,  b. 1974-

Oil on canvas

[historicaltimes]

A dog sits in the snow watching a column of Axis Italian soldiers of the 8th Italian Army, march towards the city during the Battle of Stalingrad. Volgograd Oblast, Russia, Soviet Union. December 1942.

via reddit

[bookmania]

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire (via bookmania)

[rsbenedict-deactivated20181216]

This week’s Sumerian Sunday is ba-ba-ya10, old man.

Cuneiform from the ePSD.

[twodogsdead]

“Futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky” (1917)

[fifteenthcenturygirl]

“I understand the power and the alarm of words – Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.”

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Fairfield Porter, Painting Material 1949