Nicolas Robert
@robertsnickc.bsky.social
Writer & translator. Art, music, the natural world, the state of the world.
"So the paradox is, it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.“
~ Slavoj Žižek
"So the paradox is, it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.“
~ Slavoj Žižek
Yellow-bibbed Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus solomonensis), found in the Solomon and Bismark Islands.
#Photograph by Mathieu Bally.
#Photograph by Mathieu Bally.
November 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Yellow-bibbed Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus solomonensis), found in the Solomon and Bismark Islands.
#Photograph by Mathieu Bally.
#Photograph by Mathieu Bally.
The Mountains – grow unnoticed –
Their Purple figures rise
Without attempt – Exhaustion –
Assistance – or Applause –
In Their Eternal Faces
The Sun – with just delight
Looks long – and last – and golden –
For fellowship – at night –
~ Emily Dickinson ‘757’ (1863)
#Painting by Nicholas Roerich.
Their Purple figures rise
Without attempt – Exhaustion –
Assistance – or Applause –
In Their Eternal Faces
The Sun – with just delight
Looks long – and last – and golden –
For fellowship – at night –
~ Emily Dickinson ‘757’ (1863)
#Painting by Nicholas Roerich.
November 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The Mountains – grow unnoticed –
Their Purple figures rise
Without attempt – Exhaustion –
Assistance – or Applause –
In Their Eternal Faces
The Sun – with just delight
Looks long – and last – and golden –
For fellowship – at night –
~ Emily Dickinson ‘757’ (1863)
#Painting by Nicholas Roerich.
Their Purple figures rise
Without attempt – Exhaustion –
Assistance – or Applause –
In Their Eternal Faces
The Sun – with just delight
Looks long – and last – and golden –
For fellowship – at night –
~ Emily Dickinson ‘757’ (1863)
#Painting by Nicholas Roerich.
“We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.”
~ Jean Cocteau, ‘Diary of an Unknown’ (1952)
#Sculpture & #painting by Jean Cocteau, ‘Les trois-yeux.’
~ Jean Cocteau, ‘Diary of an Unknown’ (1952)
#Sculpture & #painting by Jean Cocteau, ‘Les trois-yeux.’
November 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
“We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.”
~ Jean Cocteau, ‘Diary of an Unknown’ (1952)
#Sculpture & #painting by Jean Cocteau, ‘Les trois-yeux.’
~ Jean Cocteau, ‘Diary of an Unknown’ (1952)
#Sculpture & #painting by Jean Cocteau, ‘Les trois-yeux.’
November 29, 2025 at 11:04 AM
‘The Erratics.’ #Photography by Darren Harvey-Regan #art
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
‘The Erratics.’ #Photography by Darren Harvey-Regan #art
What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?
More glory and more grief than I can tell:
The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling
Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.
~ Emily Brontë, from ‘Stanzas’ (1846)
#Painting by Conrad Jon Godly.
More glory and more grief than I can tell:
The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling
Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.
~ Emily Brontë, from ‘Stanzas’ (1846)
#Painting by Conrad Jon Godly.
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?
More glory and more grief than I can tell:
The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling
Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.
~ Emily Brontë, from ‘Stanzas’ (1846)
#Painting by Conrad Jon Godly.
More glory and more grief than I can tell:
The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling
Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.
~ Emily Brontë, from ‘Stanzas’ (1846)
#Painting by Conrad Jon Godly.
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
‘Broadway and 21st St., Long Island City,’ ‘Queens Blvd’ & Untitled. #Photography by Yoav Friedlander #art
#Streetart, Italian, Greek & American flags along with the American Bald Eagle represent the proud communities that once populated Astoria & Long Island City #NYC
#Streetart, Italian, Greek & American flags along with the American Bald Eagle represent the proud communities that once populated Astoria & Long Island City #NYC
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
‘Broadway and 21st St., Long Island City,’ ‘Queens Blvd’ & Untitled. #Photography by Yoav Friedlander #art
#Streetart, Italian, Greek & American flags along with the American Bald Eagle represent the proud communities that once populated Astoria & Long Island City #NYC
#Streetart, Italian, Greek & American flags along with the American Bald Eagle represent the proud communities that once populated Astoria & Long Island City #NYC
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
“All human lives are so profoundly & intricately entwined - those dead, those living, those generations yet to come - that the fate of all is the fate of each, & the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.”
~ Dean Koontz, ‘The Corner of His Eye.’
#Photography, M. Entero.
~ Dean Koontz, ‘The Corner of His Eye.’
#Photography, M. Entero.
November 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
“All human lives are so profoundly & intricately entwined - those dead, those living, those generations yet to come - that the fate of all is the fate of each, & the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.”
~ Dean Koontz, ‘The Corner of His Eye.’
#Photography, M. Entero.
~ Dean Koontz, ‘The Corner of His Eye.’
#Photography, M. Entero.
‘Any way the wind blows,’ Force of nature & ‘Empty crisis.’ #Painting & #sculpture by André Serfontein #art
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
‘Any way the wind blows,’ Force of nature & ‘Empty crisis.’ #Painting & #sculpture by André Serfontein #art
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
“Half of life is lost in charming others.
The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.
Leave this play. You have played enough.”
~ Rumi (1207-1273)
#Painting by Asim Habibi.
The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.
Leave this play. You have played enough.”
~ Rumi (1207-1273)
#Painting by Asim Habibi.
November 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
“Half of life is lost in charming others.
The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.
Leave this play. You have played enough.”
~ Rumi (1207-1273)
#Painting by Asim Habibi.
The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.
Leave this play. You have played enough.”
~ Rumi (1207-1273)
#Painting by Asim Habibi.
‘France. #Photography by Camilla Koffer (1960) #art
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
‘France. #Photography by Camilla Koffer (1960) #art
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
November 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM