January 2012
See the brightest star Sirius at midnight on New... →
‘Sirius in the constellation Canis Major – the legendary Dog Star – should be called the New Year’s star. This star – the brightest one in our sky – celebrates the birth of 2012 and every new year by reaching its highest point in the sky around the stroke of midnight. That’s the case this year, and every year.’
“The moon likes secrets. And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her...”
– Charles de Lint
December 2011
“For last year’s word belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await...”
– T. S. Eliot, from Section II of Quartet no. 4 “Little Gidding”, in Four Quartets (with thanks to apoetreflects)
patienceunlikedew:
Taught by suffering. Drop by drop, wisdom is distilled from pain. -Aeschylus Agamemnon
From The Presocratics, Philip Wheelwright.
“He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
– John Steinbeck
“I have reservoirs of want enough
to freeze many nights over.”
– Conor O’Callaghan, from “January Drought” (adapted from rabbit-light)
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“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via mirroir)
“Invisible things are the only realities.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via pavorst)
“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the...”
– Leonora Carrington, The House of Fear, 1988
from proustitute
(via birdsong27)
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“And all the spaces of our past moments of solitude, the spaces in which we have...”
– Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (via proustitute)
“By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the...”
– Henry David Thoreau
