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I can hear a wolfing sound in the distance. It is the wind. It is the world. It is the cold. 📷 Ann Mitchell

"Like the Moon Burning" a platinum/palladium print by Ann Mitchell,showing a dirt road bordered by wind-swept trees under a dramatic, cloudy sky. A thick plume of white smoke billows from a low brush fire or pile on the side of the road.

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Silence is a flower, it opens up, dilates, extends its texture, can grow, mutate, return on its steps. I can watch other flowers grow and become what they are. ~ Etel Adnan

A detail of Explosion Florale (1968/2018), aN artwork by Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist Etel Adnan.

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"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop" ~ Rûmî

This documentary image of the installation was captured by YCAM to showcase the work of the two renowned Japanese artists who conceptualized the piece: Ryuichi Sakamoto & Shiro Takatani
At the core of the installation is a large, mirror-like black water basin onto which water droplets fall with meticulous control.

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Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me. We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the day-break. ~ Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself #poetry . 📷 Alan Frost

Black-and-white architectural scene with heavy intentional motion blur, creating a ghostly, abstract atmosphere.
The image depicts Chichester Cathedral in West Sussex, England. The visible structures are the historic gates and stone archways leading into the cathedral grounds.

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#poetry ✨️✨️ A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding The gap left by things which have already happened Leaving nothing in their place, may have nothing to do But that. Dreams are like ghosts achieving ghosts’ perennial goal Of revoking the sensation of repose. ~ Lyn Hejinian

Black-and-white landscape photograph captured by Philip Perkis. A vast, dark grassy field dominates the lower half of the frame. In the center sits a large, still puddle. The surface of the water clearly reflects the sky above and the intricate, bare branches of the nearby trees.
A dense tree line stretches across the horizon under a moody, cloud-filled sky. A layer of low-hanging fog or mist settles right at the base of the woods, separating the field from the forest and adding to the eerie, still atmosphere of the scene.

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Ça fait mal d’apprendre à quitter ceux qui nous quittent,d’apprendre à les aimer en silence, le dos tourné, les yeux baissés. De devoir apprendre à son coeur la force de se vider tout en demeurant habité. Apprendre à pleurer en souriant, à s’en aller en aimant ~ Philippe Besson

Artistic photograph titled "Hands and Leaves" by the artist Jessica Lindgren Wu.
Scattered dry autumn leaves adhere to the surface of the glass.

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#poetry Space is the supreme poem of the Universe / which the architect produces / the hard distillation of intensity / that defines / quality of light. ~ Salette Tavares (transl. by Isabel Sobral Campos and Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton) . Victor Hugo Azevedo

This charcoal-style drawing by Victor Hugo Azevedo depicts a chiaroscuro architectural study that explores light and shadow within a dark interior space.

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Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was. ~ Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

This artwork is titled "Alice Falling" and was created by Australian photographic digital artist Karen Alsop. It depicts the classic scene from Alice in Wonderland where Alice falls down the rabbit hole.

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🖼 L'ultimo capanno (The Last Beach Hut), created in 1963 by Carlo Carrà. #art

A serene coastal landscape featuring a single blue beach hut on the sand and a small boat floating near the shore.

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#poetry I wake in the night, the never-coming-back of you clustering in my throat. ~ Danielle Shuster, from Bitter Candytuft . 📷 Yohan Terraza

This photo, titled "01" by photographer Yohan Terraza, is a moody and minimalist low-light shot capturing a lonely cabin shrouded in dense night fog.

I should not have waited. It would have been better To have slept and dreamed, Than to have watched night pass, And this slow moon sink. - Quý bà Akazome Emon (Transl. Kenneth Rexroth) .

This print is a famous shin-hanga artwork titled Woman on a Beach, Moonlight (Evening) (sometimes translated as A woman sauntering on a beach by moonlight), created by the Japanese artist Shoda Koho (1871–1946) around 1910–1920 and published by Hasegawa.

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It is the oven my mother used to bake bread and roast chicken before a bomb reduced our house to ashes It is the café where I watched football matches and played— My child stops me: Can a four-letter word hold all of these? ~ Mosab Abu Toha #poetry . Katja Liebman

An abstract, distorted monochrome triptych artwork featuring a blurred and smeared urban street scene with architectural elements like windows and storefronts in dark blue and beige tones.

It made me wish for a different life because I didn't have the energy for the life I had anymore. It made me grow up faster than I needed to. It made me mature. It made me lonely. ~ Julia Reesor, Sea Glass Secrets . 📷 Michel Clement

$A black and white surrealist photograph featuring a woman's face partially refracted through a trapezoidal glass vase filled with water$

Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#Music ✨️ Yehezkel Raz & Jakub Dubik - Nabi youtu.be/wNum9eEZ6Ok?...

Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#poetry On a far night, the glinting pine needles Accepted lettings of remorseful tears. On a far night, the skies were frosty-white, The lofty pine clutched the hanging noose. Love made descent on the lofty pine, He was suspended in the posture of prayer ~ Sakutarō Hagiwara (tr by Hiroaki Sato)

This image features a sumi-e style ink painting of a weathered, twisted pine tree on a rock by artist and master Shozo Sato.

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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

✍️ Lost, because time passed. Lost, because I waited. Hurt, because I did not choose Blind, because I reacted. Found, because I traveled. Close to death, because I did not stop. In danger, because I wanted it easy. Rejected, because I forced. Abnormal,because I listened to you. . Pauline P. Raybaud

Fine art photograph by the French artist Pauline P. Raybaud.
It features a silhouette in motion, captured in a timeless monochrome style where the film grain texture, dramatic shadow play, and fluid drapery emphasize the emotional tension of the choreographic pose.

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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

...don’t feel lonely when you look up into great night and find yourself the far face peering hugely out from between a star and a star. All that space the nighthawk plunges through, homing, all that distance beyond embrace,what is it but your own infinity ~ Li-Young Lee, Night Mirror

A minimalist and melancholic digital illustration created by the artist known as Robinson72_
The artwork features a lonely house perched on the edge of a steep, dark cliff overlooking a quiet sea at night. A textured, canvas-like sky holds a crescent moon and a few silhouetted birds.

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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A surreal and poetic window display created by designer Charitini Gkritzali in collaboration with ECAL for Hermès in Zurich.The artwork is titled "The Astonishing Moment of Life" #Art

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"The only truth is music….Music blends with the heartbeat universe and we forget the brain beat" ~ Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac, 1959 – Photograph by John Cohen

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Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 x 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Monday mood... . Lauren Zaknoun

A dark silhouette stands balanced on a small rock in the middle of a calm, vast body of water under a silent, blue mist. Lauren Zaknoun combines photography with digital editing .

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Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it. ~ Emil Cioran . Adam Riches

Oil painting on wood panel by British contemporary artist Adam Riches.This monochromatic, surrealist artwork features a distorted, fragmented human figure emerging from a dark background.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love. ~ Washington Irving

A close-up detail of a woman's crying eyes from the The Last Day of Pompeii painted by Karl Bryullov between 1830 and 1833.

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I don't care That's what I show I'll take my chance alone They gag my mouth And hose me down Washing out the dreams I've known I was insane when I came here But now I realize Insanity is the only way to survive ...🎶 . Sad Lovers and Giants - Asylum Town youtu.be/-28124dEFag?... 📷 Gary Heller

Basement room of an abandoned asylum photograph by Gary Heller

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There is no rewind button for life. ~ Nam June Paik

Artwork titled Time Runs / Tape Runs (1984), an etching and aquatint print created by the pioneering video artist Nam June Paik.

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A great black sleep falls on my life: sleep, all hope, sleep all desire! I see nothing more, I am losing my memory of the pain and the good... O the sad story! I am a cradle that a hand rocks in the depth of a vault: silence, silence! #Verlaine #poetry (transl. by Christopher Goldsack)

lithograph "Le Sommeil" (Sleep) created in 1897 by the French Symbolist artist Eugène Carrière.

Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Scars are: the tattoo of a memory... The graffiti Survival draws on our skin, / Scars, the way pain writes ‘I was here’ before it dies! ~ Ehi Ogwiji . Paula Luttringer

The photograph is titled El lamento de los muros (The Lament of the Walls), created by Argentine photographer and activist Paula Luttringer. It depicts the decaying interior walls of former clandestine detention centers used by the Argentine military dictatorship (1976–1983) for the torture and forced disappearance of political dissidents.

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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Would you call it a conversation if the other person is silent and, to keep up the appearance of a conversation, you try to substitute for him, and so imitate him, and so parody him, and so parody yourself. ~ Franz Kafka, Diaries . 🖼 René Magritte - Architecture au Claire de Lune

René Magritte - Architecture au Claire de Lune (Architecture in the Moonlight), 1956
The surrealist artwork features a stark, minimalist white architectural structure under a deep blue night sky dominated by a bright full moon. A long staircase on the left casts a geometric shadow down the wall, while a large archway on the right frames a solitary white sphere resting on a dark horizon.

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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#weekend What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke. ~ Bob Dylan, Chronicles One . 🖼 Crater (Cratère) by Christo

Crater (Cratère), created in 1960 by the renowned artist Christo (Christo Javacheff).

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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

From the place where we are right Flowers will never grow In the spring. The place where we are right Is hard and trampled Like a yard. But doubts and loves Dig up the world Like a mole, a plow. And a whisper will be heard in the place Where the ruined House once stood ~ Yehuda Amichai #poetry

a watercolor titled The Ruins of Eldena Abbey (Die Ruine des Klosters Eldena), painted by Caspar David Friedrich around 1824–1825.

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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"What I am looking for: one more rhyme. But this syllable does not exist. It is the void in silence, and death in absence. It is the impossible and unresolved equation." ~ Ananda Devi, The Long Desire (transl. Rachel Joan Wysocki) . Kazimir Malevich

A modernist lithograph titled "Dynamo-Naturshchik" (The Dynamic Model) created by the Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich.

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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You don't need me. What you really need is a mirror. Because any stranger is for you simply a mirror in which to reflect yourself. I don't ever again want to return to such a desert of mirrors. ~ Kōbō Abe, The Face of Another . M. C. Escher

Still Life with Mirror is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which was created in 1934. The mirror mingles together two unrelated spaces: the outside world of a narrow street in Villalago, a small town in Abruzzi, and the internal world of the bedroom.

Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

...that won’t be the happy ending, but it will be an instant of emptiness and joy. And maybe then you’ll remember me, if only just a little. ~ Roberto Bolaño #poetry

A ghostly transparent woman in a dress standing floating on a country path - photographer Raggedstone

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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. ~ John O'Donohue .

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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#Music #Jazz John Coltrane - Slow Blues youtu.be/EH3mb3oXCpw?...

Black and white photograph of John Coltrane

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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#goodnight #poetry Who knows if the moon's a balloon, coming out of a keen city in the sky—filled with pretty people? (and if you and i should get into it, if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people... ~ E. E. Cummings .

surreal black-and-white photograph, titled Conversation avec le temps (Conversation with Time), is a 2011 creation by the French fine-art photographer Michel Kirch.

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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I". ~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead #poetry #thoughts

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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“To what can this human life be likened? Perhaps to a wild swan treading on the snow; it leaves a few tracks and flies on blithely into the unknown.” ~ Su Shi (widely known by his art name Su Dongpo) (transl. John Minford ) #poetry . 🖌 Zhīgāng

A traditional Chinese ink painting depicting a white swan in the snow, accompanied by calligraphy. A large white swan with a yellow and black beak, raising one leg amid stylized snowflakes.

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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#goodnight Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. ~ Anaïs Nin

Digital artwork titled "Hitchhiker" created by the American visual artist Beth Conklin.

#goodnight "On the temple bell, a butterfly is sleeping." ~ Yosa Buson ( transl. R.H. Blyth) #poetry .

Woodblock print titled Temple Bell, created by Shoda Koho around 1910.
A Buddhist monk strikes a large bronze bell (bonsho) suspended inside a wooden tower.A tranquil night scene featuring a glowing full moon and a distant pagoda rising above the tree line.

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You have to be strong and forge ahead, then, things will start to roll. Just give it plenty of time, as others have done before. Then you'll be ready to start again and open, another door! — Audrey Heller . 🖌 Robin Courneya-Roblin

minimalist watercolor painting depicting a misty, atmospheric landscape with a dense forest of pine trees rendered in deep indigo and blue tones.

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The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

A single red rose in a glass jar sits on a table in front of a window covered by a white lace curtain, with sunlight casting patterns across the scene. Photographer unknown

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The cruelest walls are made of glass. ~ Ocean Vuong #poetry #art . 🖼 Corine Ko

mixed media artwork by artist and photographer Corine Ko, featuring a pensive woman suspended over abstract, aquatic depths.

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