Jean-Paul Sartre

“Existence precedes essence.” / "La existencia precede a la esencia."

“Freedom demands that we accept the responsibility for our own fate.”


"La libertad requiere que aceptemos la responsabilidad de nuestro propio destino."

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Truth is like the sun

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."

La verdad es como el Sol. La podés ocultar por un tiempo, pero no se va a ir.

Elvis Presley (Tupelo, Mississippi, 8 de enero de 1935 - Memphis, 16 de agosto de 1977)

Arder de deseo

Arder de deseo y callarlo es el peor castigo que nos podemos autoinflingir.

Federico García Lorca

Bob Dylan about Freedom

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

 This statement first appeared during a 1985 interview accompanying his Biograph album release.

"Pienso en un héroe como alguien que entiende el grado de responsabilidad que conlleva su libertad."

Bukowski (1920 - 1994) about Hemingway (21/07/1899 - 2/07/1961)

“And then along came Hemingway. What a thrill! He knew how to lay down a line. It was a joy. Words weren’t dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.”


― Charles Bukowski

Nick Cave about "lashon hara" - The Red Hand Files Issue #362

"Susie and I try to be mindful of lashon hara - a Hebrew term meaning ‘evil speech’, an act forbidden under Jewish law. It basically means you are prohibited from saying anything negative about anyone, even if it is true. Now, we’re not Jewish but it feels like a pretty solid idea. So, if Susie starts to say something unkind about someone, I say, “lashon hara, babe”, and if I do it, she says, “Darling, lashon hara.” That way, we keep each other on the righteous path. (...)"

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Angels in desguise

Sean hospitalarios con los extraños

Pueden ser ángeles disfrazados.

‘Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.’

Hebrews 13:2

Bob Dylan (is like a) Bull Rider

'It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.' 

Bob Dylan

Jack Kerouac (born on this day, 1922)

"Let’s all just say “the hell with it!” and become really creative at last… free, basking, wandering, idly stopping here and there, tasting, enjoying."

Jack Kerouac

“I read [Kerouac’s] On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else’s.”

Bob Dylan

Words

 

"Actions speak louder than words."

"Vibes speak louder than words."

People talk.

Vibes, actions and words speak.

Rumi

"Raise your words, not your voice.

It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

Rumi

Levanta tus palabras, no tu voz.

Es la lluvia la que hace crecer las flores, no el trueno.

Palabra (y voz)

"No hay mucho para caretear 

cuando lo que te está vistiendo 

es la voz", me dijo 

un amigo por audio

y lo tuve que transcribir.

Numeral (#)

“Los números no mienten”
menos si te hablan 

directamente.

Iris Murdoch

 

"Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real."

William Wordsworth

“Look at you comforting others with the words you wish to hear.”



William Wordsworth

Henry Beston

“It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.”





― Henry Beston

John Berryman

"You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.”

― John Berryman

Feliz Año Nuevo.

"Repito por pura alegría de vivir: la salvación no llega a través del riesgo, sin el cual la vida no vale la pena.

Feliz Año Nuevo."

Clarice Lispector

Ernest Hemingway

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”


“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice.”


“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they chose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.”



Ernest Hemingway

What does the money machine eat?

 

"To travel in space you must learn to leave the old verbal garbage behind: food talk, priest talk, mother talk, family talk, love talk, party talk, country talk. You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to see what is in front of you with no preconceptions.

What does the money machine eat to shit out? 

It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty

and above all it eats creativity. 

It eats quality and shits out quantity."

Q: To what extent can this "new mythology", this new framework of associations and images, affect the awareness of the reader, and make him move about in space and time?

A: That would depend entirely on the reader, how open he is to new experience, and how able he is to move out of his own frame of reference. Of course most people are only able to give a very small fraction of their attention to what they read -- to anything they're doing -- because of their various compulsive preoccupations, and with just a tenth of their attention on something they don't move very far. Others are able to apply much more attention.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

The wavelength most dangerous to human life is 7 hz.

― William S. Burroughs

SOURCE: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/ehn/Web/release/burroughs.html