Sheweptamongtheoak - Once More Into The Fray

Prologue to F. Dostoevsky's 'Demons' by Jorge Luis Borges

i think we as modern humans have a tendency to forget that historical people were also humans who had thoughts and feelings and dreams just like we do

Lilacs after rain

Photograph from June 2024

art as a confession James Baldwin (The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman), Albert Camus (Notebooks, 1935-1942)

For someone who is tired 100% of the time, I sure am bad at sleeping.

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

Pride & Prejudice, dir. Joe Wright

“That is the way I want to write—rich and rhythmic—heavy, sonorous prose that befits those mythic ambiguities that are both source and structure to an aesthetic experience symbolized by language—”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

"I still feel that poetry is not medicine — it's an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it. We all feel alienated because of this continuous violence in the world. We feel alone, but we feel also together. So we resort to poetry as a possibility for survival. However, to say I survived is not so final as to say, for example, I'm alive. We wake up to find that the war survived with us."

Dunya Mikhail, Revisiting Iraq Through The Eyes Of An Exiled Poet