#georges rodenbach

[petaltexturedskies]

Georges Rodenbach, Bruges-La-Morte

[undinesea]

All is dream, all is silence and solitude, [...] in the brain's water one thinks naked and bare, underwater dreams are ceaselessly voyaging, Ah! this buried life, never ending...

Georges Rodenbach, from Mental Aquarium

[exhaled-spirals]

Thus is my soul, alone, and nothing touches it. It is, as in a glass, enclosed within silence. All wholly given to its interior scene, To its own intimate and underwater life Where dreams gleam softly in the silvered water. And what is Life to it, then? And what are Those surface reflections —ephemeral décor?

— Georges Rodenbach, Les Vies encloses

[shisasan]

My soul has become aquatic and lunar; it is all coolness and brightness, and I live as if my soul were moon and water put under glass.

Georges Rodenbach, 1882

[lairreparablefugadeltiempo]

Más allá del olvido (Hugo del Carril, 1955)

[majestativa]

Her memory [...] his cult of her.

— GEORGES RODENBACH ⚜️ Bruges-la-Morte, transl. by Mike Mitchell & Will Stone, (2005)

[virtuouslibertines69]

"The only man who is truly happy is a man who has an idée fixe. It fills any empty spaces in his thought, sneaks unexpected pleasures into his boredom, gives direction to his idle hours, again and again enlivens the stagnant waters of existence with a surging current." - Georges Rodenbach, The Bells of Bruges

[europeansculpture]

George Minne (1866 - 1941) - Projet définitif du Monument à Georges Rodenbach, ca. 1899