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The Jadeite cabbage
Carved in the workshops of the Chinese emperors at an unknown date, this famous piece one of the most exquisite jade carvings in existence. Skilfully using the natural colours of ‘moss in snow’ jadeite, the artist replicated a cabbage with two insects hiding amongst the leaves. The natural variations in hue of Chinese cabbage are so wonderfully represented that one could almost eat it. The veins in the leaves are skilfully exploited flaws and naturally stained fractures in the rough material.
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11:27 am • 8 January 2019 • 1,157 notes
violentwavesofemotion:
“Chilly January. She gave herself to the dark waves,”
— Bertolt Brecht, from Poems: 1913-1958; “The Legend of the Harlot Evelyn Roe,”
11:26 am • 8 January 2019 • 965 notes
prettybookishh:
“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
— William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (via uselessatheart)
11:24 am • 8 January 2019 • 20 notes
deadwaxinscriptions:
“The landscape is sacramental. [Heaney] is peculiarly responsive to the emblematic character of natural objects and processes. They evoke in him a deep sense of the numinous. He is open to intuitions that relate human female psychology and sexuality to the landscape. Landscape becomes a memory, a continuity, a piety, a feared and fecund mother, and insatiable lover [italics mine].”
– Elmer Andrews, The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: All the Realms of Whisper
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12:03 pm • 4 January 2019 • 8 notes
deadwaxinscriptions:
“I have always listened for poems, they come sometimes like bodies come out of a bog, almost complete, seeming to have been laid down a long time ago, surfacing with a touch of mystery… . The crucial action is pre-verbal, to be able to allow the first alertness or come-hither, sensed in a blurred or incomplete way, to dilate and approach as a thought or a theme or a phrase… . That first emergence involves the divining, vatic, oracular function.”
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Seamus Heaney, Preoccupations, Selected Prose: 1968 - 1978
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12:02 pm • 4 January 2019 • 11 notes
violentwavesofemotion:
Francis Brnardone, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky from “Of Course I Am Jealous,”
12:02 pm • 4 January 2019 • 1,857 notes
lifeinpoetry:
if in the middle of my life
i am turning the final turn
into the shining dark
let me come to it whole
and holy
not afraid
not lonely
out of my mother’s life
into my own.
into my own.
— Lucille Clifton, from good woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
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3:51 pm • 15 December 2018 • 290 notes
violentwavesofemotion:
Velimir Khlebnikov, from Collected Poems & Selected Writings; “Everland,”
3:42 pm • 15 December 2018 • 6,363 notes
