The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Poetry · Essay
Take a poem and look very closely into it…the vowels, the letters. Study it closely….It probably can replicate itself (though not easy) you are my eyes. Directing your voice without distraction in it. Sense and feel the difference between the visual informational moments the imag
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Art · Reflection
You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It’s not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away a
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Poetry · Reflection
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. ~W. Somerset Maugham www.moniquespassions.com
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Literature · Reflection
“There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. Bu
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Art · Reflection
“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.” Franz Liszt
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Art · Reflection
“The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.” Marc Chagall
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Literature · Reflection
“The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.” Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977 This photo of Nabokov and his wife is taken in Switzerland.
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Art · Reflection
“Fairies” Federica Nightingale (b. 1964) is an Italian collagist and poet. What I love most about her works is the magic of it! As if she has transfered her poetry into images. http://www.passionofart.com/FedericaNightingale/my_artworks#gal
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Art · Reflection
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.” Baruch de Spinoza, (1632-1677), Jewish philosopher. His “Tractatus theologico-politico” defends freedom of thought and tolerance. German School. Herzogliche Bibliothek,
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Art · Reflection
Volaverunt They have flown, Capricho 61 “These are heads so full of volatile gas that they need neither a balloon nor witches in order to fly” The flying beauty and the accompanying commentary refer to the Duchess of Alba, whose fickleness Goya experienced at first hand. Francesc
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Art · Reflection
“I’m not moaning, nor thinking of moaning, for I believe that no one is richer than he who is content with what he has, and that I am…” Francisco Goya
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