ataraxia

In a world full of chaos and murder, bloodshed and heartache - there was a flower of such beauty it seemed to give a sense of peace to those around it.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, 2024)

[djibrildiopmambety]

All We Imagine as Light (2024 🇮🇳) directed by Payal Kapadia

[eternaloptimistsphere]

start seeing everything as God, but keep it a secret

[todaviia]

This quote is not by the great Persian poet Hafez, who lived in Shiraz, Persia from 1325–1390, it's by Daniel Ladinsky, a contemporary American poet who "translated" Hafez into English and whose books about Hafez are the most popular "versions" in the West nowadays - the problem is just that the poems written by Ladinsky have absolutely nothing to do with actual Hafez poems (which follow very strict form conventions and the difference is obvious to anyone who has seen a real Hafez poem). Ladinsky does not speak Persian and claims his "translations" came to him in dreams, but if you look at his poems, you see that they are essentially original poetry published under Hafez's name and at most loosely inspired. I can really recommend this article about the whole topic

Fake Hafez: How a supreme Persian poet of love was erased

That so many of the poems attributed to Hafez are fake reveals a Western appropriation of Muslim spirituality.

[miiilowo]

where is my favorite painting i need to find my favorite painting

[miiilowo]

a break in their day by david hettinger. i loveyou

[freshmoviequotes]

Fire of Love (2022)

[slayerbuffy]

In this world lived a fire and in this fire, two lovers found a home. Fire of Love 2022 | dir. Sara Dosa

[communicants]

Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)

[wkwz]

When Harry Met Sally (1989) dir. Rob Reiner

[trainstationgoodbye]

Yam sausages, you see? You grill them… And then slice them and eat them hot. Sounds good, doesn’t it? I would have loved to eat them with you.

Tampopo | タンポポ 1985 dir. Juzo Itami

[bladesrunner]

Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright

[lilium--bosniacum]

“killing the flowers will not delay spring” / al-yarmouk palestinian refugee camp in damascus, syria

little palestine; diary of a siege (2021) dir. abdallah al-khatib

[ecrituria]

"I have resigned as poetry editor of the New York Times Magazine. The Israeli state’s U.S.-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers. The world, the future, our hearts—everything grows smaller and harder from it. This is not only a war of missiles and land invasions. It is the ongoing devastation of the people of Palestine, people who have resisted throughout decades of occupation, forced dislocation, deprivation, surveillance, siege, imprisonment, and torture. Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse. I won’t write about poetry amidst the ‘reasonable’ tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more sanitized hell-words. No more warmongering lies. If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present."

—Anne Boyer, in her resignation as poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine

[oneinchbarrier]

[sayruq]

Palestinian Resistance 🇵🇸 on X

"Are you taking me to the cemetery?!" A little girl asking, as she is rescued from beneath the debris of her demolished home in Al-Bureij c

[tragicsiblings]

THE BEAR | 2.01 "Beef"

[dirtycrows]

GANSEY — The Dream Thieves

“While I’m gone,” Gansey said, pausing, “dream me the world. Something new for every night.”

Maggie Stiefvater

[nazarjoon]

صبر تلخ است ولیکن بر شیرین دارد

patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet

[nazarjoon]

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