Some say that
when it is said
the word dies.
I say instead that
just that day
He begins to live and
Emily Dickinson, Silences : 1212
QUOTES
Quotes are the words arranged in a magical manner. "Words are stones" ( Carlo Levi )
At the root of the verb to quote we find these meanings: "to move, to call"; "put in motion".
The quotation is, therefore, a short text that aims to move those affected by it on their emotional and intellectual level.
On this page we write some fragments that made us pause. The list is sparse and fragmentary: as an ongoing intention should always be.
MARRIED LOVE
John Donne
In bed accompanying his woman
Come or my Lady, that my strength
for you they will be industrious, and intent
in work they will be, to so much effort.
The enemy, when an enemy spots
he wears himself out in idleness, even without a struggle.
Off that glittering belt of yours,
starry sky, on even more vague sky,
away that veil from the breasts, which hides you
in defense of intent and foolish looks.
And harmonious, lay down every bond,
that the time of love bed has come.
Take away that divine bust, my envy,
because forever it can have you near.
Fall the dress and the sweet body
reveal itself to me, as when the shadow
from the hill dumbs and shows the meadows in bloom.
Off those hair clips, untie
the diadem of hair on your head.
Take off those shoes and enter the sacred
my bed, soft temple of love.
In white clothes the heavenly Angels
they were expected by men, and Angelo
you too are, revealing a sky to me
which is Muhammad's paradise.
And although the ghosts confuse us
white clothes, even easily
from these angels we distinguish them:
because those make our hair stand on end
and these instead, divine, the flesh.
Allow my hands to caress
and behind and forward, and in between, and above and below.
Oh you my America, my New Earth,
my kingdom so much more defended, how much
more from me alone, man to guard.
O my mine of gems, my empire
and I am happy here, to discover you!
To be free is to be bound
and in that seal I will place my hand.
O complete nakedness, of all joy
you are human first and true cause.
And as the incorporeal soul goes,
so your body without veils will have
eternal perfection. And those diadems
with which you vague women adorn yourself
golden apples are like Atalanta
thrown before a man by deception
crazy, attracted more to cold buds
than from she who ardently exhibits them.
As a paint, or as a binding
of book is the garment of a woman:
she inside, alone, is mystical writing
than to us deigned by divine grace
its revealed, admire we can.
And therefore to me, so that I can see,
show yourself as a midwife,
slowly stripping you of all
those white linens, because to innocence
never again be any penance imposed.
I naked, love you I teach and why
so are you, more dressed up than me?
same ocean, that time too was already
RESPONSIBILITY LOVE ACTIONS PROMISED
What can be promised? Actions can be promised, but not feelings, because these are involuntary. Who
promises someone to always love him or always hate him or always be faithful to him, promises something that is not in his power; instead it can well promise those actions, which are, yes, usually, the effect of love, hatred and fidelity, but which can also arise from other reasons: since more ways and motives lead to an action. There promise to always love someone means: as long as I love you, I will carry out the actions of love towards you; if not,
I will love you more, you will continue to receive the same actions from me, even if for other reasons, so that in the mind of others the illusion persists that love is unchanged and always the same. Therefore, it promises to continue in appearance of love when, without being blinded by oneself, one swears eternal love to someone.
(FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, too human, I, ARNOLDO MONDADORI EDITORE 1970, page 58)
to adapt
Arrange a room
Duration: intermittent Material: some rooms Effect: adapt
Carpet and wallpaper, tiles and plaster, electrical system, light beams, doors, windows, curtains, cushions,
furniture, plants ... You have to decide the place of the objects, the color and the style. What's interesting is that we don't know
how to do. Learn to listen to what the room says. Every place wants a certain shape and a certain one
accommodation. One cannot have a global or rational knowledge of it. It is as if in every place the spirit of the place
spoke its own language, which you must learn using your resources. We must therefore break up
impregnate with the characteristics of the place: volume, lights, surfaces, materials, texture. And then go groping.
A good accommodation never comes from a first intuition. We must proceed by approximation, step
step by step, by trial and error. Knowing how to be silent and forget, rediscover, act beyond words and
representations. Not completely in a theoretical and abstract way. Put one color and the others all around you
transform. Put a piece of furniture and the volumes change, sometimes even the colors and lights. Everything is always in close
relationship with the rest. So you shouldn't be fooled when you don't know exactly the route from
follow.
Experience obeys different rules each time. You have to let it act and act at the same time. Are you al
center of maneuvers, but you will be successful if you do not impose anything. On the other hand the consequences of this relative
liabilities will be by reason of who you are. What the place suggests, what it demands to measure is not
evidently the same for all people: the place is the guide, but you are the driver and not someone else. Not
you are therefore only furnishing a room, but also yourself.
This experience teaches you that you are an integral part of the environment around you. Not an actor, or a
architect, in short, an external will that decides only appearances. You are an element of the room and it
it becomes one of the elements of your being. If someone tells you "how beautiful your house is", you can feel it
as a banality or to think that the truth produces some effect in the long run.
Roger - Pol Droit, Small portable philosophy. 101 daily thought experiments, Rizzoli, 2001
friendship
What we like in friends is the way they think about us.
Tristan Berbard
FRIENDSHIP EROTISM MALE FEMALE
The friendship between a man and a woman is always a little erotic, even if unconsciously.
Jorge Luis Borges
to get sick
With what was called a shadow on my lung, a shadow had once again fallen over my existence
MARRIED LOVE
John Donne
In bed accompanying his woman
Come or my Lady, that my strength
for you they will be industrious, and intent
in work they will be, to so much effort.
The enemy, when an enemy spots
he wears himself out in idleness, even without a struggle.
Off that glittering belt of yours,
starry sky, on even more vague sky,
away that veil from the breasts, which hides you
in defense of intent and foolish looks.
And harmonious, lay down every bond,
that the time of love bed has come.
Take away that divine bust, my envy,
because forever it can have you near.
Fall the dress and the sweet body
reveal itself to me, as when the shadow
from the hill dumbs and shows the meadows in bloom.
Off those hair clips, untie
the diadem of hair on your head.
Take off those shoes and enter the sacred
my bed, soft temple of love.
In white clothes the heavenly Angels
they were expected by men, and Angelo
you too are, revealing a sky to me
which is Muhammad's paradise.
And although the ghosts confuse us
white clothes, even easily
from these angels we distinguish them:
because those make our hair stand on end
and these instead, divine, the flesh.
Allow my hands to caress
and behind and forward, and in between, and above and below.
Oh you my America, my New Earth,
my kingdom so much more defended, how much
more from me alone, man to guard.
O my mine of gems, my empire
and I am happy here, to discover you!
To be free is to be bound
and in that seal I will place my hand.
O complete nakedness, of all joy
you are human first and true cause.
And as the incorporeal soul goes,
so your body without veils will have
eternal perfection. And those diadems
with which you vague women adorn yourself
golden apples are like Atalanta
thrown before a man by deception
crazy, attracted more to cold buds
than from she who ardently exhibits them.
As a paint, or as a binding
of book is the garment of a woman:
she inside, alone, is mystical writing
than to us deigned by divine grace
its revealed, admire we can.
And therefore to me, so that I can see,
show yourself as a midwife,
slowly stripping you of all
those white linens, because to innocence
never again be any penance imposed.
I naked, love you I teach and why
so are you, more dressed up than me?
same ocean, that time too was already
night, in the main deck saloon, the explosion of a Chopin waltz that she knew secretly and intimately,
because for months she had tried to learn it and had never been able to play it well, never, so much so that her mother then
he had allowed him to stop studying the piano. That night, lost among many and many nights, the girl, of this
she was certain, she had spent it on that ship and there was when that happened, when the music of
Chopin under the luminescent sky. There was not a breath of wind and the music had spread all over the dark steamer,
like an injunction from heaven, like a divine order of unknown significance. And the girl had stood up as per
go and kill himself in turn, throw himself into the sea in turn and then he cried, because he thought of the man to
Cholen and all of a sudden she wasn't sure she hadn't loved him anymore, only she hadn't seen that love because yes
he was lost in history like water in sand and she only found him now, in the instant of music on the sea ».
(MARGUERITE DURAS, The lover)
love relationship
Plato: «Lovers who spend their lives together cannot tell what they want from each other. You certainly can't
to believe that only for the trade of carnal pleasures do they feel such a burning passion for being together. IS'
then it is evident that the soul of each one wants something else that it is unable to say, and therefore expresses it with various
omens, as if divining from an enigmatic and dark background "
ANIMALS
Animals are such nice friends: they don't ask questions, they don't criticize.
GOAT ANIMALS
Two goats
Goat with a sharp snout
and amber eyes;
goat that changes in a few hours
the physiognomy of a honeysuckle,
in the morning turgid with buds
and now I bare. Goat what are you doing
guarding a house
which has never been inhabited:
you are unaware sister
of a totem - another goat
who watches over my house, but stuffed.
The natural watches over the void,
solitary; while the man shells
with his artifice his rosary.
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