Personality disorder (silver linings)

No silêncio dos olhos

Em que língua se diz, em que nação,
Em que outra humanidade se aprendeu
A palavra que ordene a confusão
Que neste remoinho se teceu?
Que murmúrio de vento, que dourados
Cantos de ave pousada em altos ramos
Dirão, em som, as coisas que, calados,
No silêncio dos olhos confessamos?

José Saramago, Os Poemas Possíveis

We're in the dark, it's getting late

Soneto à maneira de Camões

Esperança e desespero de alimento
Me servem neste dia em que te espero
E já não sei se quero ou se não quero
Tão longe de razões é meu tormento.

Mas como usar amor de entendimento?
Daquilo que te peço desespero
Ainda que mo dês - pois o que eu quero
Ninguém o dá senão por um momento.

Mas como és belo, amor, de não durares,
De ser tão breve e fundo o teu engano,
E de eu te possuir sem tu te dares.

Amor perfeito dado a um ser humano:
Também morre o florir de mil pomares
E se quebram as ondas no oceano.

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

'Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do

On the art of flirting too

"I will not profess bravery [...] but I acknowledge a good deal of pleasure in fighting"

George Elliot (Mary Ann Evans), Middlemarch

Menina-mulher

Promise (Losing You Was)

Sometimes being open to new things, including new friends, brings a load of fresh relaxed coconuts into your life :) 

Mr. Anderson

Cold, cold heart

Quando eu partir

O mês passado fizeste anos, parabéns querido! Pergunto-me se encontraste esta casa, ou se alguém mais sabe que a procuravas.
Obrigada por me teres ensinado também a perda.

Love is a bitch

Venture into the unknown

"It takes a lot of courage to fight biases and oppressive regimes, but it takes even greater courage to admit ignorance and venture into the unknown. Secular education teaches us that if we don’t know something, we shouldn’t be afraid of acknowledging our ignorance and looking for new evidence. Even if we think we know something, we shouldn’t be afraid of doubting our opinions and checking ourselves again. Many people are afraid of the unknown, and want clear-cut answers for every question. Fear of the unknown can paralyse us more than any tyrant. People throughout history worried that unless we put all our faith in some set of absolute answers, human society will crumble. In fact, modern history has demonstrated that a society of courageous people willing to admit ignorance and raise difficult questions is usually not just more prosperous but also more peaceful than societies in which everyone must unquestioningly accept a single answer. People afraid of losing their truth tend to be more violent than people who are used to looking at the world from several different viewpoints. Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question."

Yuval Harari,  21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Living in times of Corona virus

24.
partir em viagem?
fico em casa
na companhia das flores de cerejeira

Yosa Buson

Like the end of an era

"You don't shit where you eat. And you really don't shit where I eat."

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know. 
His house is in the village though; 
He will not see me stopping here 
To watch his woods fill up with snow. 

My little horse must think it queer 
To stop without a farmhouse near 
Between the woods and frozen lake 
The darkest evening of the year. 

He gives his harness bells a shake 
To ask if there is some mistake. 
The only other sound’s the sweep 
Of easy wind and downy flake. 

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, 
But I have promises to keep, 
And miles to go before I sleep, 
And miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

"... Precisamente porque o amei, amei-o tanto que agora amo o meu antigo amor por ele..."

Lev Tolstói, Anna Karénina

Creating worlds is fun