"

UN FEU DISTINCT

Un feu distinct m’habite, et je vois froidement
La violente vie illuminé entière…
Je ne puis plus aimer seulement qu’en dormant
Ses actes gracieux melangés de lumière.

Mes jours viennent la nuit me rendre des regards,
Après le premier temps de sommeil malheureux;
Quand le malheur lui-même est dans le noir épars
Ils reviennent me vivre et me donner des yeux.

Que si leur joie éclate, un écho qui m’éveille
N’a rejeté qu’un mort sur ma rive de chair,
Et mon rire étranger suspend à mon oreille,

Comme à la vide conque un murmure de mer,
Le doute, - sur le bord d’un extrême merveille,
Si je suis, si je fus, si je dors ou je veille?

"

Paul Valéry - “Album de vers anciens” (1920)
@7 months ago with 9 notes
#littérature #literature #valéry #paul valéry #poésie #poetry #oneiric #soul #spiritual 

"All these writers were welcomed by other writers. It seemed to follow that you needed such a welcome, yet before this could happen you somehow, anywhow, had to meet the writer who was to welcome you. My idea of how this worked wasn’t low or even practical. I never thought about making connections. My aspirations were mystical. I wanted to receive the laying on of hands that had written living stories and poems, hands that had touched the hands of other writers. I wanted to be anointed."

“Old School”, Tobias Wolff (2003)
@1 year ago with 10 notes
#literature #tobias wolff #wolff #bildungsroman #coming of age #writers #anointed #mystical 
“Contusion” - Sylvia Plath
From my copy of Ariel, which arrived yesterday.

“Contusion” - Sylvia Plath

From my copy of Ariel, which arrived yesterday.

@1 year ago with 7 notes
#sylvia plath #poetry #literature #poetess #poem #beautiful #sad #evocative #contusion #ariel 

"Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society."

Doris Lessing (via thebackspacer)
@1 year ago with 9 notes
#child #doris lessing #education #freedom #individuality #indoctrination #judgement #literature #system #teaching #thought 

"LIVRES.
Presque tous les livres que j’estime et absolument tous ceux qui m’ont servi à quelque chose, sont livres assez difficiles à lire.
La pensée peut les quitter, elle ne peut les parcourir.
Les uns m’ont servi quoique difficiles; les autres, parce qu’ils les étaient."

“Choses tues” - Paul Valéry
@1 year ago with 1 note
#paul valéry #valéry #philosophie #philosophy #heckyeahi'mback #livres #littérature #literature #books 

"Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the wild eyes! the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! to solitude! waving! carrying flowers! Down to the river! into the street!"

Allen Ginsberg - “Howl” (1955)
@1 year ago with 7 notes
#literature #ginsberg #allen ginsberg #howl #beat #beat generation #america #industrialization #butcher of souls 

"Oisive jeunesse
À tout asservie,
Par délicatesse
J’ai perdu ma vie."

Arthur Rimbaud, 1872 [Age 18]
@1 year ago
#arthur rimbaud #existence #existentialism #i feel old too #poetry #poésie #rimbaud #teenagers who feel old #vie #literature #littérature 
via AmericanPoetry.biz
@1 year ago with 1 note
#bipolar #cashing in #cheating #fame #indifelity #journal #journals #literature #money #poetess #poetry #suicide #sylvia plath #ted hughes 

"

(Since I don’t speak Czech, and all I’ve got is my Spanish translation of the novel, I really hope I’ll be forgiven for this shameless Spanish-English translation. I just want to get the message through…)

It’s the force, you know? The force of the matter. The matter is extremely strong. I… I can feel its bustle. It holds it in… with great effort. As soon as you open a crack inside it, it disintegrates, boom! Everything is an explosion. When a flower opens, that’s an explosion. Every thought is some kind of burst inside the brain. When you hold my hand, I feel how something explodes inside you. I have extraordinary touch, my friend. And ear. Everything emits a buzz, like effervescent powder. It’s nothing but small explosions. Pandemonium has broken out in my head… Ratatata, like a submachine gun.

"

Karel Čapek - Krakatit (1924)
@1 year ago with 1 note
#literature #Karel Čapek #Krakatit #novel #Czech #translation #explosion #explosions #life #matter #force of the matter #energy #atomic #nuclear #sci-fi #science fiction #XXth Century 
"

UN FEU DISTINCT

Un feu distinct m’habite, et je vois froidement
La violente vie illuminé entière…
Je ne puis plus aimer seulement qu’en dormant
Ses actes gracieux melangés de lumière.

Mes jours viennent la nuit me rendre des regards,
Après le premier temps de sommeil malheureux;
Quand le malheur lui-même est dans le noir épars
Ils reviennent me vivre et me donner des yeux.

Que si leur joie éclate, un écho qui m’éveille
N’a rejeté qu’un mort sur ma rive de chair,
Et mon rire étranger suspend à mon oreille,

Comme à la vide conque un murmure de mer,
Le doute, - sur le bord d’un extrême merveille,
Si je suis, si je fus, si je dors ou je veille?

"
Paul Valéry - “Album de vers anciens” (1920)
7 months ago
#littérature #literature #valéry #paul valéry #poésie #poetry #oneiric #soul #spiritual 
"Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the wild eyes! the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! to solitude! waving! carrying flowers! Down to the river! into the street!"
Allen Ginsberg - “Howl” (1955)
1 year ago
#literature #ginsberg #allen ginsberg #howl #beat #beat generation #america #industrialization #butcher of souls 
"All these writers were welcomed by other writers. It seemed to follow that you needed such a welcome, yet before this could happen you somehow, anywhow, had to meet the writer who was to welcome you. My idea of how this worked wasn’t low or even practical. I never thought about making connections. My aspirations were mystical. I wanted to receive the laying on of hands that had written living stories and poems, hands that had touched the hands of other writers. I wanted to be anointed."
“Old School”, Tobias Wolff (2003)
1 year ago
#literature #tobias wolff #wolff #bildungsroman #coming of age #writers #anointed #mystical 
"Oisive jeunesse
À tout asservie,
Par délicatesse
J’ai perdu ma vie."
Arthur Rimbaud, 1872 [Age 18]
1 year ago
#arthur rimbaud #existence #existentialism #i feel old too #poetry #poésie #rimbaud #teenagers who feel old #vie #literature #littérature 
“Contusion” - Sylvia Plath
From my copy of Ariel, which arrived yesterday.
1 year ago
#sylvia plath #poetry #literature #poetess #poem #beautiful #sad #evocative #contusion #ariel 
via AmericanPoetry.biz
1 year ago
#bipolar #cashing in #cheating #fame #indifelity #journal #journals #literature #money #poetess #poetry #suicide #sylvia plath #ted hughes 
"Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society."
Doris Lessing (via thebackspacer)
1 year ago
#child #doris lessing #education #freedom #individuality #indoctrination #judgement #literature #system #teaching #thought 
"

(Since I don’t speak Czech, and all I’ve got is my Spanish translation of the novel, I really hope I’ll be forgiven for this shameless Spanish-English translation. I just want to get the message through…)

It’s the force, you know? The force of the matter. The matter is extremely strong. I… I can feel its bustle. It holds it in… with great effort. As soon as you open a crack inside it, it disintegrates, boom! Everything is an explosion. When a flower opens, that’s an explosion. Every thought is some kind of burst inside the brain. When you hold my hand, I feel how something explodes inside you. I have extraordinary touch, my friend. And ear. Everything emits a buzz, like effervescent powder. It’s nothing but small explosions. Pandemonium has broken out in my head… Ratatata, like a submachine gun.

"
Karel Čapek - Krakatit (1924)
1 year ago
#literature #Karel Čapek #Krakatit #novel #Czech #translation #explosion #explosions #life #matter #force of the matter #energy #atomic #nuclear #sci-fi #science fiction #XXth Century 
"LIVRES.
Presque tous les livres que j’estime et absolument tous ceux qui m’ont servi à quelque chose, sont livres assez difficiles à lire.
La pensée peut les quitter, elle ne peut les parcourir.
Les uns m’ont servi quoique difficiles; les autres, parce qu’ils les étaient."
“Choses tues” - Paul Valéry
1 year ago
#paul valéry #valéry #philosophie #philosophy #heckyeahi'mback #livres #littérature #literature #books