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pritamandginsbergsgarden · 1 year

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from collected poems by John Berger

#english #poetry #memory #list poems #British poets #English literature #John Berger #John Berger poems #Hegel #poems #poetry recs #collected poems

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quotefeeling · 1 month

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closeness with a certain sum of shared experiences. Yet in reality total strangers, who will never say a single word to each other, can share an intimacy — an intimacy contained in the exchange of a glance, a nod of the head, a smile, a shrug of a shoulder. A closeness that lasts for minutes or for the duration of a song that is being listened to together. An agreement about life. An agreement without clauses. A conclusion spontaneously shared between the untold stories gathered around the song.

John Berger, Some Notes on Song

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homoerotisch · 9 months

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a view of delft, johannes vermeer (c. 1660) / a view from delft, john berger (1984)

#paintings and poems #i am also annoyed john berger didnt name it the same way but the english vermeer title is a translation anyway

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thoughtkick · 1 year

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closeness with a certain sum of shared experiences. Yet in reality total strangers, who will never say a single word to each other, can share an intimacy — an intimacy contained in the exchange of a glance, a nod of the head, a smile, a shrug of a shoulder. A closeness that lasts for minutes or for the duration of a song that is being listened to together. An agreement about life. An agreement without clauses. A conclusion spontaneously shared between the untold stories gathered around the song.

John Berger, Some Notes on Song

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dk-thrive · 8 months

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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

— John Berger, "G" (A&C Black, Jan 1, 2012)

#Cicadas #poem #poetry #write #soul #John Berger

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thehopefulquotes · 1 year

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closeness with a certain sum of shared experiences. Yet in reality total strangers, who will never say a single word to each other, can share an intimacy — an intimacy contained in the exchange of a glance, a nod of the head, a smile, a shrug of a shoulder. A closeness that lasts for minutes or for the duration of a song that is being listened to together. An agreement about life. An agreement without clauses. A conclusion spontaneously shared between the untold stories gathered around the song.

John Berger, Some Notes on Song

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surqrised · 9 months

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closeness with a certain sum of shared experiences. Yet in reality total strangers, who will never say a single word to each other, can share an intimacy — an intimacy contained in the exchange of a glance, a nod of the head, a smile, a shrug of a shoulder. A closeness that lasts for minutes or for the duration of a song that is being listened to together. An agreement about life. An agreement without clauses. A conclusion spontaneously shared between the untold stories gathered around the song.

John Berger, Some Notes on Song

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yorgunherakles · 1 year

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rene magritte - the ladder of fire

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perfectquote · 2 years

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closeness with a certain sum of shared experiences. Yet in reality total strangers, who will never say a single word to each other, can share an intimacy — an intimacy contained in the exchange of a glance, a nod of the head, a smile, a shrug of a shoulder. A closeness that lasts for minutes or for the duration of a song that is being listened to together. An agreement about life. An agreement without clauses. A conclusion spontaneously shared between the untold stories gathered around the song.

John Berger, Some Notes on Song

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oldwinesoul · 1 year

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Time is much kinder at night, there's nothing to wait for, nothing is out of date.

—John Berger, From A to X

#poets on tumblr #dark academia #aesthetic #spilled poetry #words #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #19th century #vintage #love poem #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia books #renaissance art #renaissance #poetry #dark academia lovers #vintage classics #dark acdemia #John Berger

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nightlyquotes · 2 years

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closeness with a certain sum of shared experiences. Yet in reality total strangers, who will never say a single word to each other, can share an intimacy — an intimacy contained in the exchange of a glance, a nod of the head, a smile, a shrug of a shoulder. A closeness that lasts for minutes or for the duration of a song that is being listened to together. An agreement about life. An agreement without clauses. A conclusion spontaneously shared between the untold stories gathered around the song.

John Berger, Some Notes on Song

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pritamandginsbergsgarden · 1 year

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from collected poems by John Berger

#John Berger #English #English poetry #collected poems #John Berger poems #British writers #British poetry #October poems #poems in months #poetry #poetry recs #poems 2022

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resqectable · 2 years

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closeness with a certain sum of shared experiences. Yet in reality total strangers, who will never say a single word to each other, can share an intimacy — an intimacy contained in the exchange of a glance, a nod of the head, a smile, a shrug of a shoulder. A closeness that lasts for minutes or for the duration of a song that is being listened to together. An agreement about life. An agreement without clauses. A conclusion spontaneously shared between the untold stories gathered around the song.

John Berger, Some Notes on Song

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soracities · 9 months

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would you be willing to share books or poems with your favorite or even pretty writing / prose? thank you 😊

oh Absolutely

books!

A Moth to a Flame, Stig Dagerman

For Two Thousand Years, Mihail Sebastian

The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado

The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

The Waves, Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

The Sea, John Banville

The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney

Possession, A.S. Byatt

The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa

The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield

The Book of Delights, Ross Gay

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

i am lewy, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc

A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

Seiobo There Below, Laszlo Krasznahorkai

The History of Love, Nicole Krauss

The Carpenters Pencil, Manuel Rivas

Books Burn Badly, Manuel Rivas (full disclosure: the language in this book is HARD)

How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, Saša Stanišić

From A to X: A Story in Letters, John Berger

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Mark Doty

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

Paris, When It's Naked, Etel Adnan

A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Four Bare Legs in a Bed: Stories, Helen Simpson

South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami

A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Süskind

The Things We Don't Do, Andrés Neuman

We Love Glenda So Much and Other Tales, Julio Cortázar

Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke

All We Saw, Anne Michaels (poetry)

Collected Poems of Vasko Popa, Vasko Popa (poetry)

Barefoot Souls, Maram al-Masri (poetry)

Without an Alphabet, Without a Face, Saadi Youssef (poetry)

poems!

"In Spite of Everything, the Stars" by Edward Hirsch

"I Can Tell You a Story" by Chuck Carlise

"The Roses of Saadi" by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

"The Stare" by Sujata Bhatt

"Stolen Moments" by Kim Addonizio

"Moonlight Sonata" by Yannis Ritsos

"No Title Required" by Wislawa Szymborska

"I Sleep A Lot" by Czeslaw Milosz

"Prayer for the Mutilated World" by sam sax

"Try to Praise the Mutilated World" by Adam Zagajewski

"I Cannot be Known" by Paul Eluard

"The Cinnamon Peeler" by Michael Ondaatje

"Filling Spice Jars as Your Wife" by Kai Coggin

"Persimmons" by Li-Young Lee

"This Room and Everything in It" by Li-Young Lee

"When We With Sappho" by Kenneth Rexroth

"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" by Ocean Vuong

"Not Even This" by Ocean Vuong

"Elegy of Fortinbras" by Zbigniew Herbert

"Wedding Poem" by Ross Gay

"Transformations of the Lover" by Adonis

"Cloves" by Saadi Youssef

"Punishment" by Seamus Heaney

"I've Dreamed of You So Much" by Robert Desnos

"Bleecker Street, Summer" by Derek Walcott

"Cave Dwellers" by A. Poulain Jr.

"De Humani Corporis Fabrica" by John Burnside

"The Great Fires" by Jack Gilbert

"The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart" by Jack Gilbert

#ask #anonymous #book recs #poetry recs

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thoughtkick · 2 years

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closeness with a certain sum of shared experiences. Yet in reality total strangers, who will never say a single word to each other, can share an intimacy — an intimacy contained in the exchange of a glance, a nod of the head, a smile, a shrug of a shoulder. A closeness that lasts for minutes or for the duration of a song that is being listened to together. An agreement about life. An agreement without clauses. A conclusion spontaneously shared between the untold stories gathered around the song.

John Berger, Some Notes on Song

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richmond-rex · 1 year

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The scrolling branches holding the main royal arms of [Henry VII and Elizabeth of York]'s marriage bed are echoed around the sides and ends of the lid of the couple’s tomb; they lie as on another bed with remembrances of their first, but this time with Renaissance cherubs to guard them.

One effect of this doubling of wedded bodies was to lengthen the duration of the marriage vows: what once expired at death now continued in the afterlife (...) Though it was common for a funerary monument to function as a memento mori, seldom had the imagined dialogue between the living and the dead been imbued with this degree of spousal intimacy.

Royal double tombs as a reflection of the royal body in which the body politic and natural body are mixed to forge royal power ‛whereby the emotional texture of the relationship between king and queen becomes a means to persuade their subjects of their superhuman authority’ (...) In short, spousal love becomes part of the definition of monarchical identity and power.

“We will, that for the said sepulture of us and our dearest late wife the Queen, whose soul God pardon, be made a tomb of stone called touche, sufficient in largeur for us both. And upon the same, one image of our figure, and another of hers, either of them of copper and gilt, of such fashion, and in such manner, as shall be thought most convenient.”

A CLOSED DEATH OF THE SHARED GRAVE |

Pietro Torrigiano — Tomb of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York / Ezra Pound — The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter / Franz Kafka — The Castle / Stephanie Brooke — Imagery, Iconography and Heraldry; The Marriage Bed of Henry VII & Elizabeth of York: Dynasty, Design & Descent / Bastille — Remains / Donna L. Sadler — Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture (review) / John Berger — And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos / Laura Gilpin — Selected Poems / Henry VII — The Last Will of Henry VII

#i've wanted to make this post for months!#henry vii #elizabeth of york #historicwomendaily #web weaving #historian: stephanie brooke #historian: jessica barker #historian: donna l. sadler

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