Forgetting was my only option
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9qZOuE-VoY
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.T.S. Eliot – Burnt Norton
Quick now, here, now, always—
Ridiculous the waste sad time
Stretching before and after.T.S. Eliot – Burnt Norton
This one speaks to me so much. 🤕
"They become places to collect things you want to do later, but the collecting stands in for the doing."
https://ckarchive.com/b/r8u8hoh3qpe9wu48nng83sden4n66h7hwx834
A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Our minds are better employed in bearing the misfortunes that do befall us than in foreseeing those that may.
[Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu’à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶174 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #concern #facereality #focus #future #meme #misfortune #possibility #present #problemsolving #problems #reality #speculation #troubles #worry #immediacy
#Immediacy is the dominant style of our period of #TooLateCapitalism, according to a recent book by @annakornbluh.bsky.social. I believe it’s really making itself felt in #documentary #films, with potentially destructive effects for the #genre.
Today's poem:
Budapest 1944
- by Howard Altmann
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/763121553563058176/budapest-1944?source=share
#Budapest #Nazism #holocaust #remembrance #poetry #HowardAltmann #winter #hope #endurance #spring #location #life #immediacy #bounden
When I visited the massive ancient Angel Oak tree on John's Island, SC I was all in - the smell of it, spongey ground from the roots and earth underfoot, dipping swooping branches, strong rough bark, and scads of people who wanted me to figure out their greasy phone and take their picture then got ragey hostile when I said "No thanks, I'm just here to dig on the tree" wander on "Hey lady take my picture" sigh #Immediacy #JustSayNo
A quotation from Wilder, Thornton:
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of con…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/wilder-thornton/69459/
#quote #quotes #quotation #drama #dramatist #immediacy #playwright #present #reality #stage #theater
"Inspiration is perishable — act on it immediately." — Naval Ravikant — — — #NavalRavikant #quote #quotes #inspiration #action #immediate #immediacy #enthusiasm #fervor #urgent #spontaneous
Today's poem:
Lullaby
- by John James
#poetry #JohnJames #fatherhood #ClimateCatastrophe #infant #paren #responsibility #change #consequences #immediacy
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/715307944255881216/lullaby?source=share
[The Web] is a constantly changing patchwork of perpetual nowness. ❧ Highlighted on January 07, 2020 at 11:58AM https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/07/the-internets-dark-ages-the-atlantic/
