Blue by Popova.
Category: landscape
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A place of recognition, a mirroring of the psychic spaces and inner landscapes deployed throughout the city.
“If war has an opposite, gardens might sometimes be it” (Solnit)
Win, win, win, win!
… a thing
That suddenly, for blank astonishment,
Charms every sense, and makes all thought take wing,—
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Matilda Gathering Flowers
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Touch me, he said.
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And through that opening
I did.
Lanat Abad / The Place of the Damned by Solmaz Sharif
Song, in a minor key
Ballade in C# Minor: Coronation, Nicholas Britell, The King (Original Score from the Netflix Film).
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Place can be a memory holder for paradise or pain. (Pádraig Ó. Tuama, Poetry Unbound)
This is still life
“I think I’m in hell, therefore I am. It’s the catechism come true. I’m the slave of my baptism. Parents, you’ve created my tortures and yours.—Poor nitwit! Hell can’t wield power over pagans.— This is still life!”
Arthur Rimbaud, Hellish Night, translated by Bertrand Mathieu
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“Inside, I harbor the ache of what is no longer possible.”
Charles Rafferty, Insomnolence.