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Mountain lion By: Hälle Flygare From: Getting to Know Nature's Children: Cougars 1985
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“Hunger is the most important thing to know: to be hungry is the first lesson we learn. And the ferocity of what you feel, […] sets you on fire.”
— Miguel Hernández, Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández
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Your glow’s dark burn. […] You, black star.
— ARVID MÖRNE ⚜️ Ice Around Our Lips: Finland-Swedish Poetry, transl. by David McDuff, (1989)
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“The soul that opens itself to beauty has nothing to fear.”
„Die Seele, die sich dem Schönen öffnet, hat nichts zu fürchten.“
Goethe, from a letter (Briefe), cited in Goethe – Werke, Hamburger Ausgabe
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The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths, from Seeing the Body: Poems; “Cathedral of the snake & saint”
[Text ID: “a grief / only a god could wrestle from / my soul.”]
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Thou Whose cup is a skull, Who wearest a garland of bones […] Destroyer of fear.
— ANONYMOUS ⚜️ Mahanirvana Tantra of the Great Liberation, transl. by Arthur Avalon/Sir John Woodroffe, (1913)
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Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life Complete Chronicles
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