The journal
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Poetry · Reflection
I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seen Of meadow flowers and butterflies In summers that have been Of yellow leaves and gossamer In autumns that there were With morning mist and silver sun And wind upon my hair I sit beside the fire and think Of how the world
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Literature · Reflection
“That perhaps is your task–to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poe
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Poetry · Reflection
“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” ― E.E. Cummings Christian Rohlfs, Dancing around the Ball of the Sun, 1916
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Literature · Reflection
“But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.” ― Franz Kafka
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Poetry · Reflection
Evening Slowly the evening puts on the garments held for it by a rim of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands divide from you, one going heavenward, one that falls; and leave you, to neither quite belonging, not quite so dark as the house sunk in silence, not quite so surely pl
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Literature · Reflection
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays Edmund Charles Tarbell (American painter) 1862 – 1938 Interior of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, ca. 1926
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Art · Reflection
Model in a Purple Hat Edouard Vuillard – 1912
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Art · Reflection
Three Women on a Sofa at Clos Cézanne, Vaucresseon Edouard Vuillard – circa 1921
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Literature · Reflection
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.” ― Hermann Hesse
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Literature · Reflection
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” ― Franz Kafka
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Literature · Reflection
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” ― Mark Twain Hipogeu Camps-Nonell ,1908
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Literature · Reflection
“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer Jacques-Augustin Pajou (
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