THOUGHT
REGRET
Isolation vs
RSEGRET olitude
“My playhouse is underneath Our house, & I hear people Telling each other secrets.� - Komunyakaa
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier, simpler.” - Nietzche
“I believe that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension that we find paralyzing because we no longer hear our surprised feelings living.� -Rilke
“In drawing, the trace always proceeds in the night: it always escapes the field of vision.� -Calvino
Fleas interest me so much that I let them bite me for hours. They are perfect, ancient, Sanskrit, machines that admit of no appeal. They do not bite to eat, they bite only to jump; they are the dancers of the celestial sphere, delicate acrobats in the softest and most profound circus; let them gallop on my skin, divulge their emotions, amuse themselves with my blood, but someone should introduce them to me. I want to know them closely, I want to know what to rely on. -Neruda
The beautiful, according to Edmund Burke, is what is well formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy us.
Amplified
What lies beneath the woodwork? You may be thinking, “That makes no sense!” You’re right, it doesn’t. Maybe the pure and untouched minds of young people are enlightened, free from implantations of right and wrong, this and that. Perhaps we are in the darkness, and the tracings are dancing in the sunbeams. Who are we to know? Big words do not equate to good writing. Small creatures do not equate to mediocrity. All things compelling are not beautiful. Many things, not only the beautiful, have the power to compel. I do not understand most people. How can I be expected to understand creatures which don’t even understand the world around them? Most of their minds are plagued and infected with fairy tales deemed socially acceptable to believe in as adults, the only difference is that fairy tales better people while the former destroys them.