Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by A. Poulin Jr., Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus
“I understood the true fate of Orpheus, that love is a constant terror of loss.”— Kazimierz Wierzyński, tr. by Czeslaw Milosz, “A Word of Orphists,”
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confinedlight:Winged Victory of Samothrace, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
“μηδείς με φαύλην κἀσθενῆ νομιζέτω μηδ᾽ ἡσυχαίαν, ἀλλὰ θατέρου τρόπου, βαρεῖαν ἐχθροῖς καὶ φίλοισιν εὐμενῆ: τῶν γὰρ τοιούτων εὐκλεέστατος βίος. - Let no one deem me petty and weak, nor gentle, but of the other kind, grievous to enemies and gracious to friends: for the life of such people is most renowned.”— Euripides, Medea 807-10
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
[Text ID: “But let me be unseen.”]
the Oregon Coast on 35mm film.
Adonis, tr. by Samuel Hazo, from “Elegy in Exile”, The Pages of Day and Night
“Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”
Dark Season III, 2020 by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese
“Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”
Dark Season III, 2020 by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese
