Victorious Defeat

Originally posted on a k o s i l e:
I will love you tomorrow If you ditch the helmets and choose the crowns And let your women bask in…

“We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance”

Originally posted on Art of Quotation:
“We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance” Benjamin Disraeli, British, political figure,…

In Reflection

Originally posted on A Sliver of Life:
A spotless facade, in rippled mired waters, does your soul reflect? [In the frame: Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis), non-breeding adult; Aarey Forest, Mumbai]…

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

Originally posted on Art of Quotation:
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off…

DREAM

Originally posted on Tracing Reveries:
If a dream breaks, it breaks into two. You won’t hear the sound of a broken dream through ears like the sound of a broken…

Lonely Author: Looks Ahead

Originally posted on The Lonely Author:
Lonely Author: Looks Ahead After the passing of my friend of 20 years, I moved this comments closed post to today. On this rest-cation,…

Ernst Haas (1921-1986)

“ Really, the problem isn’t that plans fail, it’s what we do when they fail. “

Originally posted on Art of Quotation:
Really, the problem isn’t that plans fail, it’s what we do when they fail. When we…

A slow catena of ghosts

Originally posted on Ordinary Handsome:
Oh, Maria, this road: It has taken me to places I never want to see again, shown me a hundred fevered fields bearing fruit through…

Praeterita

Originally posted on John Sapiro:
cf. photograph by Sophia Baboolal via Unsplash and video by Coverr-Free-Footage via Pixabay (edited) I can see them at this moment, those mountain meadows, if…

“Take, oh take those lips away”

Originally posted on John Sapiro:
William Glackens, “At Mouquin’s” (1905) Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn, And those eyes: the breake of day, Lights that…

de l’autre côté – on the other side

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