Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 21hand he licked. Licked it off. Ran out an got more dregs in his hands and smeared it on my knees neck belly licking. Plucking. Diving. Tongue is the smell of October to me. 🍇🍇🍇 Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband 020
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026BBC Radio 3 travels around Britain's coastline in a twelve-hour live relay of music, stories and sound from six lighthouses. Saturday 26 September, from 8am to 8pm. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 3 travels around Britain's coastline in a twelve-hour live relay of music, stories and sound from six lighthousesBBC Radio 3's "Where the Light Sings" is a unique twelve-hour live musical adventure, connecting some of Britain's wildest coastal locations 011
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026M. R. James still haunts England unherd.com/2026/09/mr-j...unherd.comMR James still haunts England 030
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026we are asleep over charts at running windows we are asleep with compasses in our hands and at the bow of the stone boat the wave from the ends of the earth keeps breaking W. S. Merwin, The Estuary merwinconservancy.org/poems/the-es...merwinconservancy.org"The Estuary" - Merwin ConservancyBy day we pace the many decksof the stone boatand at night we are turned out in its high windowslike stars of another sidetaste our mouths we are the salt of the earthsalt is memoryin storm and cloudw... 030
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Every time I walk past this little front yard there's another beautiful combination of forms, textures and colours on display. 030
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Die Blauen Reiterinnen 23 Okt 26 — 21 Feb 27 Museum Wiesbaden www.ernst-von-siemens-kunststiftung.de/ausstellung/...ernst-von-siemens-kunststiftung.deDie Blauen Reiterinnen - Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung 100
Reposted by Nachtdufterwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Georgia O'Keeffe in her studio, 1953 by photographer Laura Gilpin #WomensArt 41143159
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked. In the grip of it pleasure or pain doesn’t matter. 130
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The summer ended. Day by day, and taking its time, the summer ended. The noises in the street began to change, diminish, voices became fewer, the music sparse. James Baldwin, Just Above My Head 020
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026you who are neither before nor after you who arrive with blue plums that have fallen through the night perfect in the dew W. S. Merwin, To the Light of September www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...poetryfoundation.orgTo the Light of SeptemberWhen you are already here you appear to be only a name that tells of you whether you are present or not and for now it seems as though you are still… 030
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"Light brings a subject to life … That’s the main thing about all my photographs, the light no matter what it’s of. That’s what draws me to take a photograph." Olive Cotton 020
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Sleepless, so I'm watching Michel Gondry being sleepless, too. www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...arte.tvIn Bed with Michel Gondry - Die ganze Doku | ARTEEs wird Nacht in Los Angeles. Michel Gondry wälzt sich in seinem Bett hin und her; er findet nicht in den Schlaf. Der Filmemacher leidet bereits seit 50 Jahren an Schlafstörungen. Er macht die wachen ... 030
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Georgia O'Keeffe, Photographer yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...yalebooks.yale.eduGeorgia O'Keeffe, PhotographerA groundbreaking introduction to the photographic work of an iconic modern artist The pathbreaking artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) is revered for her... 110
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Under a moon waning and worn, broken, Tired with summer. Sara Teasdale, September Midnight www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...poetryfoundation.orgSeptember MidnightLyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects, … 020
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026We watch the season pull up its own stakes And catch the last weekend of the last week Before the gold and the glimmer have been replaced Another sun-soaked season fades away. My most beloved end-of-summer song. youtu.be/dxB0OT17KsU?...youtu.beDashboard Confessional feat. Juli - Stolen HIGH QUALITYYouTube video by roflmao1 100
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Don’t listen to me; my heart’s been broken. I don’t see anything objectively. I know myself; I’ve learned to hear like a psychiatrist. When I speak passionately, that’s when I’m least to be trusted. Louise Glück, The Untrustworthy Speaker www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49610/...poetryfoundation.orgThe Untrustworthy SpeakerWhen I speak passionately, that’s when I’m least to be trusted. In my own mind, I’m invisible: that’s why I’m dangerous. When I’m quiet, that’s when the… 031
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it. Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos 030
Reposted by Nachtduftersanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Note that the word 'mute' is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental opacity of human being, which likes to show the truth by allowing to be seen hiding. Anne Carson, Nox 0224
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The grasses in the field have toppled, and in places it seems that a large, now absent, animal must have passed the night. The hay will right itself if the day turns dry. I miss you steadily, painfully. Jane Kenyon, Heavy Summer Rain poets.org/poem/heavy-s...poets.orgHeavy Summer RainThe grasses in the field have toppled 020
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The air is still warm, flesh moves over flesh, there is no hurry Margaret Atwood, Late August www.goodreads.com/quotes/94307...goodreads.comA quote from Selected Poems 1Late AugustLate August —This is the plum season, the nightsblue and distended, the moonhazed, this is the season of peacheswith their lush lobed ... 020
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Don't dream it, be it. Watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show was one of the things that made growing up in a small, archconservative, staunchly catholic village that made me feel like an alien most of the time so much easier. Thank you, Tim Curry. #rip 030
Reposted by NachtdufterGeorgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Georgia O’Keeffe enjoyed gathering natural objects, such as shells, that she brought back to her studio as inspiration for her paintings. Taken in 1937, this photograph shows the objects that surrounded O’Keeffe in her New York apartment and connected her daily life to her artistic practice. 1205
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by. 120
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Another example of John Taylor's great bass lines, in Tiger Tiger from my favourite Duran Duran album Seven and the Ragged Tiger. One of the few tracks with the band he plays a fretless bass on. youtu.be/3pScycbJX60?...youtu.beTiger Tiger (2010 Remaster)YouTube video by Duran Duran - Topic 030
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026All my friends had a crush on John Taylor. I had a crush on his bass lines. Still have. Incomparable. youtu.be/mtcLKAGN-II?...youtu.beDuran Duran - "Rio" Bass Tutorial with John TaylorYouTube video by Duran Duran 130
Reposted by Nachtduftersanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 22/08/2026the mapping of a field 0558
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 8 August 1952 050
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026September approaching … I feel I owe myself a brief respite of leisure and no rushing around. I can’t face the dead reality. I want rainy days, lanterns and a hundred moons twining in dark leaves, music spilling out and echoing yet inside my head. Sylvia Plath, letter to Aurelia Plath, August 1951 041
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"Es war in ihrer Gegenwart, als habe jemand alles Licht der Welt auf einen gerichtet." Sisi & Ich (2023) This beautiful film. Susanne Wolff, Sandra Hüller and Georg Friedrich, totally brilliant as always. #nowrewatching youtu.be/aU-PCCbTPo4?...youtu.beSisi & I (2023) | Trailer | Frauke FinsterwalderYouTube video by Film Movement 020
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Doing the groceries earlier today, I spotted the first pumpkins, and Federweißer was back in the shelves. It made me smile, and I thought of my favourite quote from The Great Gatsby: "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." 🍂 040
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026“ ‘L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle,’ ” You said, and no more. Sara Teasdale, August Night yalereview.org/article/sara... Danteyalereview.orgSara Teasdale: “August Night”A poem by Sara Teasdale: “On a midsummer night, on a night that was eerie with stars, / In a wood too deep for a single star to look through, / You led… 030
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Cool night air floats in through the open window. The world unfolds again. The darkness so light, it dances. 040
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Visage - The Anvil (Night Club School) youtu.be/LjmFDfI9NnA?...youtu.beAnvil Night Club SchoolYouTube video by Visage - Topic 020
Reposted by Nachtdufterwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026'St Ives Beach' by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart 21220157
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Rhapsodies in Blue: Anna Atkins’ Cyanotypes publicdomainreview.org/essay/anna-a...publicdomainreview.orgRhapsodies in Blue: Anna Atkins’ CyanotypesIn an era when the Enlightenment’s orderly vision of the natural world began to unravel, Anna Atkins produced the world’s first photography book: a collection of cyanotypes, created across a decade be... 071
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026On nights like this, she’ll walk as far as the bridge before she turns back. Everything still smells of summer. And her body begins to seem again the body she had as a young woman, glistening under the light summer clothing. Louise Glück, Walking at Night yalereview.org/article/walk...yalereview.orgLouise Glück: "Walking at Night"A poem by Louise Glück—"Now that she is old, / the young men don’t approach her / so the nights are free..." 030
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Two months ago, in the midst of a pitch-black episode of depression, I managed to pour boiling water on my foot when cooking pasta. It has healed a lot since then, but it will probably take a long time till skin looks normal again. Hopefully. 310
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026On a train home from work after a hot but good day. 040
Reposted by Nachtdufterwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026'Common Poppies',c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by cyanotype process were among the first ever to be published #womensart 2699130
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Translucency: Gaby Wood on the cyanotypes of Anna Atkins www.lrb.co.uk/th-paper/v48...lrb.co.ukGaby Wood · Translucency: CyanotypesI don’t remember when I first learned to make cyanotypes, but I had loved Anna Atkins’s prints for many years... 040
Reposted by NachtdufterRené Magritte @renemagritte.bsky.social · 06/08/2026L'empire des lumières / The dominion of light - 1961 #artbots #magritte 05112
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026At Charleston: Hogarth Press www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth PressThere is something magnetic about the large case containing all 34 titles that Virginia Woolf made. With their marbled,... 120
Reposted by NachtdufterNachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 23/04/2025On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts. Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived In The Castle 041