the quietness

dalí, 33, he/they, 🇧🇷. philology and classics student. currently researching how sleep was portrayed in greek archaic poetry.

[bulljumpingfresco]

1975 photograph of the Phoenician trading port Sabratha

[crabussy]

you are alive on a planet with insects and whales and diatoms and mycelium networks and puppies and your human friends. literally so awesome to be a living thing

[medievalistsnet]

Lost Writings of Saint Augustine Found in Medieval Manuscript

Two previously unknown sermons by St Augustine have been identified in a twelfth-century manuscript preserved in Poland, adding new texts to the extensive body of writings left by one of Christianity’s most influential thinkers.

Read here

[louisegluck]

May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

[befikra]

i bet it feels good to be an underwater plant just swaying in sync with the flow of water

[befikra]

[pollen]

Czeslaw Milosz, from "Ars Poetica?"

[billy-on-a-walk]

Circus Lane, Edinburgh, Scotland

[pmamtraveller]

A shepherd in abandoned Sacred Grove, Herbert List, Italy, 1952

[godkissedme]

[depsidase]

[apesoformythoughts]

[soft-eyed-hypnos]

Anaxagoras:

Also Anaxagoras:

[art-of-eons]

Arch of Constantine by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros

[miscosasalberto]

[shisasan]

“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.”

— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

[victusinveritas]

[theblogginggoth]

By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

[nadiacreek]

This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.

[elodieunderglass]

This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.