Apricity

Writing is safer, somehow, because my pen cannot stutter like my lips do, and words get stuck in throats, not fingertips, can’t stumble on paper trails of blue lines because writing is definite and clear and no one can tell if I am crying or laughing through written words alone

[quotemadness]

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

Vincent van Gogh (via quotemadness)

[danger]

[quotemadness]

“If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad.”

— Sherman Alexie

[equatorjournal]

daren thomas magee

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Flor Garduño, El arbol de Yalalag, Mexico, 1983.

[outsh]

[quotemadness]

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft (via quotemadness)

[danger]

Robert Chang Chien 

[istmos]

Masao Yamamoto, Kawa=Flow #1628 and #1633, 2014

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We do not believe that there is such a thing as ‘objective’ (absolutely and unconditional) ‘truth’, though it has been a long-standing theme in Western culture that there is. We do believe that there are ‘truths’ but think that the idea of truth need not be tied to the objectivist view. We believe that the idea that there is absolute objective truth is not only mistaken but socially and politically dangerous. As we have seen, truth is always relative to a conceptual system that is defined in large part by metaphor. Most of our metaphors have evolved in our culture over a long period, but many are imposed upon us by people in power - political leaders, religious leaders, business leaders; advertisers, the media, etc. In a culture where the myth of objectivism is very much alive and truth is always absolute truth, the people who get to impose their metaphors on the culture get to define what we consider to be true - absolutely and objectively true.

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (via dostevsky)

[lifeinpoetry]

She switched places with her shadow because suffering changes shape and happens secretly.

Victoria Chang, from “OBIT,” published in Blackbird (via dostevsky)

[gnossienne]

The blood moon is framed by the statues of Hera and Apollo in Athens, 27 July 2018 (x)

[barcarole]

Wagner’s working manuscript of the first poetical draft of the libretto of Tannhäuser, 1843.

[knowing]

[goguexx]

[joeinct]

[knowing]