Category: language

[…] just for their beauty, and to say: we were here, at this moment in time, and this is what we made

ZS

‘Tis heard in spring

When light and sunbeams, warm and kind,

On angels’ wing

Bring love and music to the wind.

Love Lives Beyond the Tomb, John Clare

Slow, careful, focused. Avoiding damage.

James S. A. Corey, Tiamat’s Wrath (The Expanse Book 8)

L’imaginaire de mon lieu est relié à la réalité imaginable des lieux du monde, et tout inversement. L’archipel est cette réalité source, non pas unique, d’où sont sécrétés ces imaginaires : le schème de l’appartenance et de la relation, en même temps.

Glissant, Édouard, Philosophie de la Relation, Paris, Gallimard, 2009.

10000 daffodils–a will to adorn, a proclivity for the baroque.

My garden has at least 10,000 daffodils because I wanted to redeem Wordsworth. It’s a story about being forced to memorize his poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” So I decided that to pay homage to Wordsworth, I would plant at least 10,000 daffodils.

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Sometimes, I have friends come over and we have a daffodil party, and we recite Wordsworth and drink champagne. It’s not Wordsworth’s fault that colonial education forced us to memorize a poem about a flower that we had never seen.

Jamaica Kincaid, Harvard’s Crimson. 2017. via repeatingislands.

Beauty is not a luxury; rather it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, an embrace of our terribleness, a transfiguration of the given. It is a will to adorn, a proclivity for the baroque, and the love of too much. 

Saidiya Hartman

a coherence in things, a stability; […] something, immune from change, and shines out in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral

Virginia Woolf