So perhaps it is true that our core obsessions are of a darker nature, and concern creatures that crawl and burrow and slide through the skin, slip into the bloodstream, climb towards the heart, which upon their surreptitious entrance swells, surrenders infected or explodes in fierce conflagration, sometimes both, but then that’s a description of [...]
Erich Fromm Quotes
Erich Fromm‘s books “The Art of Loving” and “The Fear of Freedom” shaped my views a great deal when I was just a teenager. Here are some of my favorite Fromm quotes: As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to [...]
Invention of Love
Invention of Love is one of the most beautiful animated films I’ve ever seen. A love story from the world of gears and bolts. Inspired by Lotte Reiniger works and Antony Lucas’s Jasper Morello film. Written & Directed by Andrey Shushkov. Original Music and Sound: Polina Sizova, Anton Melnikov. Violin performed by Anna Gudkova Not [...]
The Last Poem
I would like you to be my last poem Of all the words I have I am speaking only one Unspoken word It could be the oath Or the most childish lie The rest dully bounce Against the walls of uncertainty I would like you to be my last poem
The Evanescence of Love
The luminous evanescence of love Reminiscent of the fragrance of roses As potent as impotent am I, Just one breath to overdosis, Inhale it deeply let it percolate I heist what I can before it’s late Premature by nature the metamorphosis Takes love from nascence to necrosis Yet it is between those two antipodes That [...]
My Sweetnest
I am not a river to flow and shape the land with gentle stream, nor am I wind to blow away the dream. Can’t even manage to move the clouds around across the sky, or turn their white to blue, and I have tried. (such a fool am I) I am earth, I am clay, [...]
Sleepless
In silence I listen to the sound of your sleep A few stolen moments that I get to keep I watch your body sway in rhythmic motion Serene and distant, free of any notion Maybe the sound of your even breathing Can soothe the hunger that in me is seething Maybe the metronome of your [...]
Love is
It takes forever to fall in love. And, what’s more disturbing, it takes even longer than that to fall out of it. And it’s this “falling out” part that scares me. “Falling out?” My friend teased me, “Why would anyone in their right mind do something like that?” [...]