dakota el mañana

i'm sorry but nobody's safe

[dakotaah]

[brooklynstatehospital]

Pablo Neruda . Keeping Quiet

Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still.

For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much.

It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines; we would all be together in a sudden strangeness.

Fisherman in the cold sea would not harm whales and the man gathering salt would look at his hurt hands.

Those who prepare green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire, victories with no survivors, would put on clean clothes and walk about with their brothers in the shade, doing nothing.

What I want should not be confused with total inactivity. Life is what it is about; I want no truck with death.

If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death. Perhaps the earth can teach us as when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive.

Now I’ll count up to twelve and you keep quiet and I will go.

[freshmoviequotes]

Maestro (2023)

[freshmoviequotes]

Maestro (2023)

[dakotaah]

[dakotaah]

[dakotaah]

Some people speak of poetry as therapy, but I don’t have this experience. For me, the therapy is in finding the right words and getting them in the right order. There is not any therapy in personal revelation.

- Henri Cole

[dakotaah]

I wanted to understand things and then be free of them.

- Bob Dylan

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“Poems tell more than they say. They convey, as if mutely, the condition of the mind that made them, and this is a large part of their meaning and their worth … [The poet’s] poems, as I heard them that evening, told that they were the work of a mind that had taught itself to be quiet for a long time. [These] lines were qualified unremittingly by a silence that they came from and were going toward, that they for a moment broke. One felt that the words had come down onto the page one at a time, like slow drops from a dripping eave, making their assured small sounds, the sounds accumulating. The poems seemed to have been made with a patience like that with which rivers freeze or lichens cover stones. Within the condition of long-accepted silence, each line had been acutely listened for, and the acutely listened to.”

— Wendell Berry, from “Speech After Long Silence,” Imagination in Place: Essays (Counterpoint, 2010)

[dakotaah]

i love you

[dakotaah]

I think it would be rather narrow—and moralistic—to say that poetry must comfort us and point to what is good. I don’t think that is the function of art, though sometimes it is a happy result. In any case, a sentimental, moralizing poem is not what I want to write. I don’t want the reader to experience comfort—I want the opposite. A lyric poem presents an X-ray of the self in a moment of being, and usually this means dissonance. 

- Henri Cole

[dakotaah]

Some people speak of poetry as therapy, but I don’t have this experience. For me, the therapy is in finding the right words and getting them in the right order. There is not any therapy in personal revelation.

- Henri Cole

[anderwater]

THE BEAR 1.08

[anderwater]

Family’s up.

[dakotaah]

“Dealing with time is not for sissies.”

— Sir George Martin

[dakotaah]

Everything I've done up to this point has made me ready to be honest about the fact that it's not easy to be a kid. Everybody sees me as a success story, but nobody really knows who we are until we are courageous enough to tell everybody who we are. I figured it out when I was about 74. And I was like, 'You better do it now. You better do it now.'

- Steven Spielberg, Golden Globes 2023 speech

[dakotaah]

[dakotaah]