Nico
@brushesandnotes.bsky.social
Music ▪︎ Art ▪︎ Photography ▪︎ Silence
I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.
~ Warsan Shire
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📷 Rhonda Lashley Lopez
~ Warsan Shire
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📷 Rhonda Lashley Lopez
October 3, 2026 at 3:46 AM
I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.
~ Warsan Shire
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📷 Rhonda Lashley Lopez
~ Warsan Shire
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📷 Rhonda Lashley Lopez
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“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement
#BookSky
― Ian McEwan, Atonement
#BookSky
October 2, 2026 at 8:52 PM
“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement
#BookSky
― Ian McEwan, Atonement
#BookSky
I can hear a wolfing sound in the distance.
It is the wind.
It is the world.
It is the cold.
📷 Ann Mitchell
It is the wind.
It is the world.
It is the cold.
📷 Ann Mitchell
October 2, 2026 at 6:04 PM
I can hear a wolfing sound in the distance.
It is the wind.
It is the world.
It is the cold.
📷 Ann Mitchell
It is the wind.
It is the world.
It is the cold.
📷 Ann Mitchell
Silence is a flower, it opens up, dilates, extends its texture, can grow, mutate, return on its steps. I can watch other flowers grow and become what they are.
~ Etel Adnan
~ Etel Adnan
October 2, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Silence is a flower, it opens up, dilates, extends its texture, can grow, mutate, return on its steps. I can watch other flowers grow and become what they are.
~ Etel Adnan
~ Etel Adnan
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop"
~ Rûmî
~ Rûmî
October 2, 2026 at 4:59 PM
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop"
~ Rûmî
~ Rûmî
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Es war mehr als Einsamkeit
es war
die verdammte Niemandszugehörigkeit…
paul nizon
* 19. 12. 1929
es war
die verdammte Niemandszugehörigkeit…
paul nizon
* 19. 12. 1929
October 2, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Es war mehr als Einsamkeit
es war
die verdammte Niemandszugehörigkeit…
paul nizon
* 19. 12. 1929
es war
die verdammte Niemandszugehörigkeit…
paul nizon
* 19. 12. 1929
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History of the Night
Jorge Luis Borges
tr. Charles Tomlinson
Down through the generations
men built the night.
In the beginning it was blindness and sleep.
Jorge Luis Borges
tr. Charles Tomlinson
Down through the generations
men built the night.
In the beginning it was blindness and sleep.
October 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM
History of the Night
Jorge Luis Borges
tr. Charles Tomlinson
Down through the generations
men built the night.
In the beginning it was blindness and sleep.
Jorge Luis Borges
tr. Charles Tomlinson
Down through the generations
men built the night.
In the beginning it was blindness and sleep.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It's usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
October 2, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It's usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
October 2, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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Don't be serious, be sincere.
— Chetan Bhagat
— Chetan Bhagat
October 2, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Don't be serious, be sincere.
— Chetan Bhagat
— Chetan Bhagat
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« Love has a triumph and death has one,
the time and the time thereafter.
We have none.
Only the sinking of stars about us. Reflected splendour and
silence
Yet the song above the dust
one day will rise above us. »
~ Ingeborg Bachmann
(tr. Mike Lyons & Patrick Drysdale)
#poetry
the time and the time thereafter.
We have none.
Only the sinking of stars about us. Reflected splendour and
silence
Yet the song above the dust
one day will rise above us. »
~ Ingeborg Bachmann
(tr. Mike Lyons & Patrick Drysdale)
#poetry
October 2, 2026 at 7:32 AM
« Love has a triumph and death has one,
the time and the time thereafter.
We have none.
Only the sinking of stars about us. Reflected splendour and
silence
Yet the song above the dust
one day will rise above us. »
~ Ingeborg Bachmann
(tr. Mike Lyons & Patrick Drysdale)
#poetry
the time and the time thereafter.
We have none.
Only the sinking of stars about us. Reflected splendour and
silence
Yet the song above the dust
one day will rise above us. »
~ Ingeborg Bachmann
(tr. Mike Lyons & Patrick Drysdale)
#poetry
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Maria João Pires & Julien Libeer play Schubert Fantasy in F minor, op. 103 (live)
youtu.be/UruWMxY2OF4?si=LueMjvR_JzH1uRW_
youtu.be/UruWMxY2OF4?si=LueMjvR_JzH1uRW_
Maria João Pires & Julien Libeer play Schubert Fantasy in F minor, op. 103 (live)
YouTube video by Julien Libeer
youtu.be
October 2, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Maria João Pires & Julien Libeer play Schubert Fantasy in F minor, op. 103 (live)
youtu.be/UruWMxY2OF4?si=LueMjvR_JzH1uRW_
youtu.be/UruWMxY2OF4?si=LueMjvR_JzH1uRW_
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(𝘰𝘩, 𝘩𝘦𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘶𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦 . .)
(2.10. | brütt, 1995-97, S. 54)
(2.10. | brütt, 1995-97, S. 54)
October 2, 2026 at 4:55 AM
(𝘰𝘩, 𝘩𝘦𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘶𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦 . .)
(2.10. | brütt, 1995-97, S. 54)
(2.10. | brütt, 1995-97, S. 54)
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❝Où en sera l’enfant, si vous ne lui apprenez que le renard ne dit sans mentir que parce qu’il ment ?❞
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile ou De l’éducation
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile ou De l’éducation
September 30, 2026 at 10:35 PM
❝Où en sera l’enfant, si vous ne lui apprenez que le renard ne dit sans mentir que parce qu’il ment ?❞
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile ou De l’éducation
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile ou De l’éducation
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Gerd Mingram
Norderelbe Bridges, Hamburg, Germany, 1950
Norderelbe Bridges, Hamburg, Germany, 1950
October 2, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Gerd Mingram
Norderelbe Bridges, Hamburg, Germany, 1950
Norderelbe Bridges, Hamburg, Germany, 1950
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“Non possiamo conoscere nulla d’esterno a noi scavalcando noi stessi, - egli pensa ora, - l’universo è lo specchio in cui possiamo contemplare solo ciò che abbiamo imparato a conoscere in noi.”
Italo Calvino, L’universo come specchio • da Palomar (1994, I Meridiani, Romanzi e Racconti Vol.2 p.974)
Italo Calvino, L’universo come specchio • da Palomar (1994, I Meridiani, Romanzi e Racconti Vol.2 p.974)
October 1, 2026 at 9:13 PM
“Non possiamo conoscere nulla d’esterno a noi scavalcando noi stessi, - egli pensa ora, - l’universo è lo specchio in cui possiamo contemplare solo ciò che abbiamo imparato a conoscere in noi.”
Italo Calvino, L’universo come specchio • da Palomar (1994, I Meridiani, Romanzi e Racconti Vol.2 p.974)
Italo Calvino, L’universo come specchio • da Palomar (1994, I Meridiani, Romanzi e Racconti Vol.2 p.974)
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France based artist and illustrator Lou Benesch
Channel, 2026
(mixed media on antique chalkboard)
#LouBenesch #ContemporaryArt
Channel, 2026
(mixed media on antique chalkboard)
#LouBenesch #ContemporaryArt
October 2, 2026 at 5:18 AM
France based artist and illustrator Lou Benesch
Channel, 2026
(mixed media on antique chalkboard)
#LouBenesch #ContemporaryArt
Channel, 2026
(mixed media on antique chalkboard)
#LouBenesch #ContemporaryArt
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Translated, from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Bishop
October 1, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Translated, from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Bishop
The Chainsmokers - Hope ft. Winona Oak (Acoustic)
YouTube video by The Chainsmokers
youtu.be
October 2, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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the kind of hug
that swallows you whole
mind, body, and soul
that swallows you whole
mind, body, and soul
October 2, 2026 at 5:49 AM
the kind of hug
that swallows you whole
mind, body, and soul
that swallows you whole
mind, body, and soul
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Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me,
If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the day-break.
~ Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself
#poetry
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📷 Alan Frost
If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the day-break.
~ Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself
#poetry
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📷 Alan Frost
October 2, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me,
If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the day-break.
~ Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself
#poetry
.
📷 Alan Frost
If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the day-break.
~ Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself
#poetry
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📷 Alan Frost