July 2011
“This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.”
—Muhammad Ali
Bila Seharusnya
Goldfish And Blink Feat. Noh Salleh
Bila Seharusnya | Goldfish & Blink feat. Noh Salleh
“Bila seharusnya kita bersuara?”
.من لم تنفعك صداقته، فلا تغتم بعداوته
“Whose friendship does not benefit you, let his enmity not make you sad” - Imam Shafi’i (ra)
“Death is handed out to those who handed out death and from whose ashes new death dealers will rise.”
—Zadie Smith
“Write, I say to myself, hate those
who gently lead into nothingness
the men and women who are your companions
and think they no longer know. Among the enemies’ names
write your own too. The thunderstorm,
with its crashing, has passed. To copy
those battles nature’s not strong enough. Poetry
changes nothing. Nothing is certain. But write.” —Franco Fortini, from “Translating Brecht,” trans. Michael Hamburger
who gently lead into nothingness
the men and women who are your companions
and think they no longer know. Among the enemies’ names
write your own too. The thunderstorm,
with its crashing, has passed. To copy
those battles nature’s not strong enough. Poetry
changes nothing. Nothing is certain. But write.” —Franco Fortini, from “Translating Brecht,” trans. Michael Hamburger
“Memories of the past would return to us more often if only we sought them out, sought their intense sweetness. But we let them slumber within us, and worse, we let them die, rot, so much so that the generous impulses that sweep through our souls when we are twenty we later call naive, foolish…Our purest, most passionate loves take on the depraved appearance of sordid pleasure.”
—Fire in the Blood, Irène Némirovsky
great blog!
I’m humbled, you’ve been such a big inspiration. Thank you!
