Author: Jennie

“You are the books you read…”

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“You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, the conversations you engage in. You are what you take from these. You are the sound of the ocean, the breath of fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner. You are a collective of every experience you have had in your life. You are every single second of every single day. So drown yourself in a sea of knowledge and existence. Let the words run through your veins and let the colors fill your mind until there is nothing left to do but explode. There are no wrong answers. Inspiration is everything. Sit back, relax, and take it all in. Now, go out and create something.”

—Jac Vanek

“On soft spring nights…”

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“On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.”

―Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“Take some more tea…”

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Alice in Wonderland
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland

“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.”
“You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.”

―Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“A Song On the End of the World” by Czesław Miłosz

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On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.

On the day the world ends
Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas,
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.

And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels’ trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.

Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet
Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
No other end of the world will there be,
No other end of the world will there be.

– Czesław Miłosz

 

*Posted in conjunction with Words for the Weekend “It’s the End of the World As We Know It — Vol. 43.” 

Phantom Bridge by Michael of Good2begone

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Phantom Bridge by Michael of Good2begone
Phantom Bridge by Michael of Good2begone

“And so you haunt me. Always with me, you are the invisible diner at our table, the constant presence that trails me as I go about my daily routine…. In the darkness of a closed-lidded world, you are alive and vital, unchanging, mine. You are the ghost of everything that once was lovely… a shadow casts its majesty over everything that remains…”

~Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Art of Devotion

 

*Posted in conjunction with Words for the Weekend “It’s the End of the World As We Know It — Vol. 43.” A big thank you to Michael (Good2begone) for allowing us to borrow his photo with Samantha Bruce-Benjamin’s quote from his site. Please give a click over to his blog to enjoy more of his pictures and writing, I promise you’ll enjoy his work!