Adonis, From Selected Poems; “This Is My Name” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

Adonis, From Selected Poems; “This Is My Name” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

Adonis, from Selected Poems; “This Is My Name” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

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5 months ago

“I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, ‘I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.’”

— Marian Keyes (via herpaperweight)

5 months ago
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“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”

— Lao Tzu 

6 months ago
Kurdish is a language in which words often break down into image. A friend, haur̄ê (هاوڕێ), shares your path. A lover, hauser (ھاوسەر), shares your head. I do not wait for you, çauer̄êm (چاوه‌ڕێم), I put my eyes in the road. You do not disappoint me, destî şkawm (دەستی شکاوم), you break my hands. No one confesses, danî pêdabnî (دانی پێدابنی), one steps on one’s teeth. To comfort, dłdanewe (دڵدانەوە), one gives back the heart. This element of Kurdish delights me: to crack a word open and peer inside it, to find a world within a word, a world where the abstract is embodied. The Kurdish language calls the body into every conversation, fashioning idea from body. There is no hiding the body, not even to protect it.

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6 months ago
the damp of an October day became sweeter than the softness of May.

Anna Akhmatova, from "Don't Frighten Me" in Selected Poems

3 months ago

I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

4 years ago

Captieux

• fin XIVe; lat. captiosus, de capere « prendre »

♦ Littér. Qui tend, sous des apparences de vérité, à surprendre, à induire en erreur. ⇒ fallacieux, insidieux, spécieux.  Raisonnement, discours captieux. « Un argument captieux et difficile à débrouiller » (Taine). — (Personnes) Un raisonneur, un philosophe captieux.  ⇒ sophiste

● captieux, captieuse adjectif (latin captiosus, trompeur) Qui vise à tromper par des apparences de raison, de vérité ; fallacieux : Argument captieux.

-Qui tend à tromper, qui séduit par de belles, de fausses apparences. Argument, raisonnements captieux; questions captieuses :

-[En parlant d'une pers.] Qui induit en erreur ou cherche à le faire par de faux raisonnements.

-Captieusement, adv.De façon captieuse, insidieuse. Interroger captieusement (Ac. 1878-1932). Déjà tant de volupté se glissait captieusement sous l'idylle

Synonymes : - artificieux - fallacieux - insidieux - sophistiqué - spécieux - trompeur

Contraires : - correct - fondé - franc - honnête - juste - sincère - vrai


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6 months ago

“People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 64)

5 months ago

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”

— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

5 months ago
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Aeschylus’ (?) Prometheus Bound (tr. David Grene)

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