Wordsworth

CCLXXXVI. "My heart leaps up when I behold"

MY heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So is it now I am a man,
So be it when I shall grow old
Or let me die!
The child is father of the man:
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

Pensamento do dia

"Keep positive!"

2 meses e 7 dias

Dois momentos extraordinários: experimentar o sapato e ver os convites prontos pela primeira vez.

If you knew

2009

"Agora sim. Muito melhor. Acho que preciso de um nome."

Na verdade, ninguém entende...

De longe, essa é a melhor explicação.

Ecphrasis

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

Musée des Beaux Arts

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

--W.H. Auden

25 anos

"Crisálidas, o primeiro livro de poesias de Machado, publicado quando ele tinha 25 anos,..."

Aos 25 anos, Monet tem seus quadros apresentados em salões oficiais.

Em 1774, aos 25 anos de idade, Goethe escreve Os sofrimentos do Jovem Werther.

"Em 1942 termina a banda e Ella dedica-se a uma carreira a solo,..."

"A partir de 1924, J. L. Borges publicou algumas revistas literárias e, com mais dois livros, Luna de Enfrente (poesia) e Inquisiciones (ensaios), ganhou em 1925 a reputação de chefe da jovem vanguarda de seu país."

Aos 24 anos Virginia Woolf começou a escrever seu primeiro romance A viagem.

Ladies and gentlemen, Nina Simone.

My baby just cares for me.

Prayer

I ask good things that I detest,
With speeches fair;
Heed not, I pray Thee, Lord, my breast,
But hear my prayer.

I say ill things I would not say -
Things unaware:
Regard my breast, Lord, in Thy day,
And not my prayer.

My heart is evil in Thy sight:
My good thoughts flee:
O Lord, I cannot wish aright -
Wish Thou for me.

O bend my words and acts to Thee,
However ill,
That I, whate'er I say or be,
May serve Thee still.

O let my thoughts abide in Thee
Lest I should fall:
Show me Thyself in all I see,
Thou Lord of all.

Robert Louis Stevenson, New Poems