Busy keeping head above water. Favourite means: books (warning: includes lots of poetry)/ music (mainly classical)/ arts/ yes, that annoying/ films / stuff
AliceInTheSky
Love rules. Love laughs. Love marches. Love is the wolf that guards the gate…
—Edwin Morgan, “Love”
published in A BOOK OF LIVES, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011
#BookWormSat #poem #poetry #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754918...
Time to rewatch this
How does one go from being "anti-elite" to supporting this?
"If you owned a trillion dollars and spent $1,000,000 each day, it would take you just under 2,740 years to spend it all."
A Bigger Splash: painted 1967, taken today.
David Hockney, 1937- 2026
Mary Oliver, Red Bird, 2008
#poetry #poem #MaryOliver #BookWormSat 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Vadym Kholodenko + the Goldbergs = YES
#Bach
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJDJ...
with his venom
irresistible
and bittersweet
that loosener
of limbs, Love
reptile-like
strikes me down
✍️ Sappho. Transl. Mary Barnard
🎨 Pompeii fresco of (possibly) Sappho
#BookWormSat #poetry #LGBTQ+Lit🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
"I have so little sense of living what I’m living while I live it that I have to relive it to finally live it."
Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima" by the Apple Hill String Quartet.
cc @joepositive.wtf
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6bS...
'But love - as the male novelists define it -- and who, after all, speak with greater authority? -- has nothing whatever to do with kindness, fidelity, generosity, or poetry. Love is slipping off one's petticoat and - But we all know what love is.
📚V. Woolf, Orlando
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#LGBTQ+Lit🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
