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Crozant, solitude, 1915, Armand Guillaumin
“Toen ik ooit lesgaf, poëzie, aan jongens die daar helemaal niet om gevraagd hadden, was de eerste vraag: moeten we dat kennen voor het examen? Nee, voor het leven, zei ik. En de tweede vraag was: waartoe dient dat dan? Ik vond dat een erg domme vraag, en probeerde kwaadaardig te onthouden wie ze gesteld had. Poëzie dient namelijk nergens toe, en dat is op zich al een verdienste. Deze wereld wordt verpest door zijn utilitarisme, als iets niet meer meteen winstgevend is, deugt het niet. Dus leve het nutteloze. Waartoe dient een wandeling door het bos? Hoeveel is dat waard? Wat mag zo'n bos kosten? Hoeveel kost stilte? Precies de nutteloosheid van poëzie is een protest tegen al wat in deze wereld aan de orde is. Dit is een maatschappij van hebben. Poëzie hoort tot het rijk van het zijn.”
— Herman de Coninck, Over de troost van pessimisme
Akseli Valdemar Gallen-Kallela Sunset Over Lake Ruovesi, 1915
Ossip Braz (Russian, 1873-1936) - Kitchen Still Life
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Astronomers discovered a bizarre star that went supernova not once, but twice.
To quote the first line of a letter published today in the journal Nature, “Every supernova so far observed has been considered to be the terminal explosion of a star.” In other words, when a massive star blows itself up, it should remain dead. This is something astronomers have witnessed thousands of times before with absolutely no exceptions. That is, until now.
Waves Breaking, 1881, Claude Monet
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (via quotemadness)
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany (by Nevin’s Pics)
Not long after I arrived in the United States, I met an American woman at a friend’s home. She told me with apparent pride that her daughter was a cheerleader. I did not know what kind of leader that was. Hearing her explanation, I could not bring myself to present a compliment, as she obviously expected. I only wished that my eyes did not betray my disdain as I said to my- self, “I guess this American woman has never dreamed of her daughter being a leader cheered by men.” I felt fortunate that I had been “brainwashed” to want to be a revolutionary instead of a cheerleader… . Was “brainwashing” girls to desire to be “young vanguards” in socialist construction more oppressive and limiting than ’“brainwashing” girls to desire to be cheerleaders for football games? No.
Wang Zheng; “Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era” (via mldaily)
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Santa and Serena Antonelli and a guest dining al fresco on the terrace of their home above Via Giucciardini, in Florence, Italy, 1983.
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When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
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