Friday, May 25, 2012
“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”
Jaime Gil de Bieda(Source: light-essence)
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
“The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics, is hopeless.”
—Hayao Miyazaki
One of my very favourite recurring themes in Miyazaki’s work - especially in Spirited Away - is how the grotesque and initially threatening reveals itself to be benign and even compassionate. It’s so beautiful, and a lot more meaningful than the typical good-evil/black-white dichotomy of other mythology.
(Source: theyellowbastard)
Friday, November 25, 2011
“The life with you was lovely – and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink “v” in the middle and the way your tongue curved up to the long, lingering “l”. Our life together was alliterative, and when I think of all the little things which will die now that we cannot share them, I feel as if we were dead too. And perhaps we are. You see, the greater our happiness was, the hazier its edges grew, as if its outlines were melting, and now it has dissolved altogether. I have not stopped loving you; but something is dead in me, and I cannot see you in the mist…”
Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight(Source: iztac)
Sunday, November 6, 2011
“Silence is so accurate.”
Mark Rothko(Source: )
Saturday, November 5, 2011
“I live in Tokyo,” he told me, “a kind of civilized world — like New York or Los Angeles or London or Paris. If you want to find a magical situation, magical things, you have to go deep inside yourself. So that is what I do. People say it’s magic realism — but in the depths of my soul, it’s just realism. Not magical. While I’m writing, it’s very natural, very logical, very realistic and reasonable.”
The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami - NYTimes.com
Murakami’s Tokyo - Interactive Feature
http://nyti.ms/vhYYlb
Saturday, October 29, 2011
“You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.”
Sean Connery(Source: booksandnerds)
Thursday, October 27, 2011
“Only at the end (the end of a love, of a life, of an era,) does the past show itself as a whole and take on a brilliantly clear and finished shape.”
Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel, page 56
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
“Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving.”
Anna Kamienska Excerpts from “In That Great River: A Notebook”(Source: beautemillesimee)
