I Fear That To Write So Much About Crying Will Tempt A Universal Law Of Irony To Invite Tragedy Into
I fear that to write so much about crying will tempt a universal law of irony to invite tragedy into my life.
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book
More Posts from Moonmovement and Others
Detail - Angels “Ghent Altarpiece” finished 1432, Jan van Eyck.
A bird pecks at the corroded corner of the sky
Garous Abdolmalekian, Long Poem of Loneliness tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey
the one that teaches water to become ice, helps grief remember how to become tears.
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book
tragedy is thinking in action, thinking upon action, for the sake of action
- Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Roman “hologram” ring from 1st century CE. Gold and rock crystal with a sculpted image of nobleman Carvilius Gemellus who died. young. The ring was discovered in 2000 from her mother’s tomb near Rome.
I have to say that is the most amazing Roman ring that I’ve ever seen.
“I am the ocean; the earth; whatever dies for you.”
— Alice Notley, from In The Pines: Poems; “The Black Trailor (A Noir Fiction),” (via loveage-moondream)
burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
I say we but it's just an illusion that our hearts beat in unison
Wisława Szymborska, We tr. Regina Grol
Some of the first photographs ever taken inside the Lascaux caves (France, 1947).
The light is nervous and quiet -
Urszula M. Benka, To the Last Man on Earth, In the Hour of His Death tr. Regina Grol
