Asiya
@asiyamiya.bsky.social
"Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral."
— Edward Said
Sumūd ✊🏻
Photograph by Man Ray
— Edward Said
Sumūd ✊🏻
Photograph by Man Ray
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Jacques Prévert & Pablo Picasso by Boris Lipnitzki, 1951
"Picasso's Promenade"
allpoetry.com/Picasso's-Pr...
What an idea to paint an apple
says Picasso
and Picasso eats the apple
and the apple tells him Thanks
and Picasso breaks the plate
and goes off smiling
"Picasso's Promenade"
allpoetry.com/Picasso's-Pr...
What an idea to paint an apple
says Picasso
and Picasso eats the apple
and the apple tells him Thanks
and Picasso breaks the plate
and goes off smiling
April 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Jacques Prévert & Pablo Picasso by Boris Lipnitzki, 1951
"Picasso's Promenade"
allpoetry.com/Picasso's-Pr...
What an idea to paint an apple
says Picasso
and Picasso eats the apple
and the apple tells him Thanks
and Picasso breaks the plate
and goes off smiling
"Picasso's Promenade"
allpoetry.com/Picasso's-Pr...
What an idea to paint an apple
says Picasso
and Picasso eats the apple
and the apple tells him Thanks
and Picasso breaks the plate
and goes off smiling
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Sarah Choate Sears' portrait of her daughter Helen, along with John Singer Sargent's painting, both from 1895.
Sargent wrote this to her:
"How can an unfortunate painter hope to rival a photograph by a mother? Absolute truth combined with absolute feeling."
Sargent wrote this to her:
"How can an unfortunate painter hope to rival a photograph by a mother? Absolute truth combined with absolute feeling."
April 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Sarah Choate Sears' portrait of her daughter Helen, along with John Singer Sargent's painting, both from 1895.
Sargent wrote this to her:
"How can an unfortunate painter hope to rival a photograph by a mother? Absolute truth combined with absolute feeling."
Sargent wrote this to her:
"How can an unfortunate painter hope to rival a photograph by a mother? Absolute truth combined with absolute feeling."
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Morning rays...
Spain ©️ Ruben Ramos
Spain ©️ Ruben Ramos
April 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Morning rays...
Spain ©️ Ruben Ramos
Spain ©️ Ruben Ramos
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Luminous angel babby from my collection, ca. 1960s.
April 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Luminous angel babby from my collection, ca. 1960s.
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The bird photos will continue until morale improves
April 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The bird photos will continue until morale improves
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Ted Kooser’s “Starlight”
April 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Ted Kooser’s “Starlight”
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Ariana Reines (@graywolfpress.bsky.social)
April 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Ariana Reines (@graywolfpress.bsky.social)
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I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
—Haruki Murakami
—Haruki Murakami
April 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
—Haruki Murakami
—Haruki Murakami
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Can love be plundered
by the beloved—or a captive
be released from the dark—
prison of your eyelashes?
by the beloved—or a captive
be released from the dark—
prison of your eyelashes?
April 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Can love be plundered
by the beloved—or a captive
be released from the dark—
prison of your eyelashes?
by the beloved—or a captive
be released from the dark—
prison of your eyelashes?
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All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.
Clive James,
Hélène Béland,
'Light catcher'
youtu.be/s9hDCFVg0dY?...
Clive James,
Hélène Béland,
'Light catcher'
youtu.be/s9hDCFVg0dY?...
April 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.
Clive James,
Hélène Béland,
'Light catcher'
youtu.be/s9hDCFVg0dY?...
Clive James,
Hélène Béland,
'Light catcher'
youtu.be/s9hDCFVg0dY?...
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April 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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ele perguntou-me
em que medida é que isso te marcou?
eu perguntei-lhe:
como se mede uma raiz?
André Tecedeiro
Arte: Cy Twombly
: já se ouve o marulhar... ❤️
#25deabrilsempre
#fascismonuncamais
youtu.be/H1KSqaEvTQk?...
em que medida é que isso te marcou?
eu perguntei-lhe:
como se mede uma raiz?
André Tecedeiro
Arte: Cy Twombly
: já se ouve o marulhar... ❤️
#25deabrilsempre
#fascismonuncamais
youtu.be/H1KSqaEvTQk?...
April 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
ele perguntou-me
em que medida é que isso te marcou?
eu perguntei-lhe:
como se mede uma raiz?
André Tecedeiro
Arte: Cy Twombly
: já se ouve o marulhar... ❤️
#25deabrilsempre
#fascismonuncamais
youtu.be/H1KSqaEvTQk?...
em que medida é que isso te marcou?
eu perguntei-lhe:
como se mede uma raiz?
André Tecedeiro
Arte: Cy Twombly
: já se ouve o marulhar... ❤️
#25deabrilsempre
#fascismonuncamais
youtu.be/H1KSqaEvTQk?...
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life is not like water.
things in life
don't necessarily flow
over the shortest possible route.
- haruki murakami
things in life
don't necessarily flow
over the shortest possible route.
- haruki murakami
April 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
life is not like water.
things in life
don't necessarily flow
over the shortest possible route.
- haruki murakami
things in life
don't necessarily flow
over the shortest possible route.
- haruki murakami
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"We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly."
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
April 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly."
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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Yes Babs yes. Rock-a-bye baby. Tura-lura-lura. Yes Babs yes. Something was bound to happen, in any case, there’s no living with those people without something happening. Sh, baby, sh.
Cortazar / Hopscotch (35)
Cortazar / Hopscotch (35)
April 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Yes Babs yes. Rock-a-bye baby. Tura-lura-lura. Yes Babs yes. Something was bound to happen, in any case, there’s no living with those people without something happening. Sh, baby, sh.
Cortazar / Hopscotch (35)
Cortazar / Hopscotch (35)
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. . . the Beat Generation was a new flock of early Christians gathered prematurely before the bomb, an open-air asylum for the gentle and the mad . . .
Norman Mailer
Cannibals and Christians
Norman Mailer
Cannibals and Christians
April 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
. . . the Beat Generation was a new flock of early Christians gathered prematurely before the bomb, an open-air asylum for the gentle and the mad . . .
Norman Mailer
Cannibals and Christians
Norman Mailer
Cannibals and Christians
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“A breeze like the turning of a page
Brings back your face: the moment
Takes such a big bite out of the haze
Of pleasant intuition it comes after.”
——John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Brings back your face: the moment
Takes such a big bite out of the haze
Of pleasant intuition it comes after.”
——John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
April 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“A breeze like the turning of a page
Brings back your face: the moment
Takes such a big bite out of the haze
Of pleasant intuition it comes after.”
——John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Brings back your face: the moment
Takes such a big bite out of the haze
Of pleasant intuition it comes after.”
——John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
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To learn that we have said or done a
foolish thing that is nothing:
we must learn that we are
nothing but fools, a far
broader and more important lesson.
#Montaigne25 #Essays
foolish thing that is nothing:
we must learn that we are
nothing but fools, a far
broader and more important lesson.
#Montaigne25 #Essays
April 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
To learn that we have said or done a
foolish thing that is nothing:
we must learn that we are
nothing but fools, a far
broader and more important lesson.
#Montaigne25 #Essays
foolish thing that is nothing:
we must learn that we are
nothing but fools, a far
broader and more important lesson.
#Montaigne25 #Essays
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katia chausheva
dusk light
dusk light
April 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
katia chausheva
dusk light
dusk light
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With red ink and manifest complacency, Morelli had copied in one of his notebooks the ending of a poem by Ferlinghetti :
Yet I have slept with beauty
in my own weird way
[ . . . ]
Cortazar / Hopscotch (121)
Yet I have slept with beauty
in my own weird way
[ . . . ]
Cortazar / Hopscotch (121)
April 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
With red ink and manifest complacency, Morelli had copied in one of his notebooks the ending of a poem by Ferlinghetti :
Yet I have slept with beauty
in my own weird way
[ . . . ]
Cortazar / Hopscotch (121)
Yet I have slept with beauty
in my own weird way
[ . . . ]
Cortazar / Hopscotch (121)