Alexander von Riesen (1892-1964) - Luftgeistern (Cloud Formation with Hidden Air Spirits) :: [Guillaume Gris]
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“Maps and poems use different techniques to represent topography, to write place, but both are texts of landscape. Insofar as a poem or piece of autobiographical writing charts the terrain of the mind, it can be seen as a map of the self’s interiority, one’s inner landscape.”
— Robert Hemmings, from “Landscape as Palimpsest: Wordsworthian Topography in the War Writings of Blunden and Sassoon,” in Papers on Language and Literature (v. 43, no. 3, Summer 2007) (via memoryslandscape) + It’ll be this kind of deep blue… The kind of color that somehow sucks in your eyes and your ears and all your words — the color of a completely closed-in night.
— Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep [belles-lettres]