Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Life

Quote of the day

“In fact, we humans (and all other organisms) are almost selfless slaves whose entire purpose is to serve our molecular masters. (…) If the gene-centred view is correct, then evolution is nothing at all to do with ‘us’. We are nothing more than sophisticated robots, constructed over 3.5 billion years of mutation and selection to…
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No photos

Crows on a dying treetop, scattered on its bare branches before taking flight. Crickets in grass, loud, and reeds slowly slanting below blue mountains, crimson suns and clouds like cotton of the purest white. I take no photos and no hostages from this: I simply watch how the marvels explode on an organic retina that…
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Și de sus ninge cu pene

Fă-mă arbore, îi șoptesc nucului, cu trupul cald lipit de trunchiul lui rece și aspru, să întind brațe interminabile către cer, din care să îmi crească alte brațe și tot așa, să adun cu ele lumina – mai multă! mai multă! – să mă hrănesc cu ea, să văd de sus lumea cum treceprin timp…
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On Leaving My Walled Garden

I hugged each tree trunk one by one, caressed each stalk, each stem, each textured leaf, each evanescent petal that now is a fresh-scented pink and by dawn, sallow, already reeks of wilted tissue and, with eyes closed,I breathed. I breathed and I touched. I mapped bark creases and crevasses, patterns of smoothness and ridges,…
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Saying Goodbye to a Tree

I hugged the tree in my garden yesterday as it spread its arms out into that empty space that summer weaves out of vapor and linden fragrance. I hugged my tree yesterday held it tight bark against cheek and whispered my goodbyes. It felt rooted and rough I entered its shy shade like one enters a…
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Citatul zilei

“Este oare posibil să înțelegi cauzele celui de-al doilea război mondial fără să știi nimic despre ideologia național-socialismului german? Firește, există istorici care nu văd nimic dincolo de mobiluri economice. Și totuși, sunt oare suficiente aceste mobiluri pentru a explica de ce Germania n-a fost satisfăcută cu o expansiune moderată în Europa Centrală și în…
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Humanity (haiku)

amid cherry tree blossoms, humans fight for their right to kill humans.
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Îmbrățișați (haiku)

noaptea, suflul tău îmi naște pe spate flori albe de lotus.
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On love (2)

“It was as if they had leapt over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they…
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On love

“Florentino Ariza, for his part, suddenly asked himself what he would never have dared to ask himself before: what kind of secret life had she led outside of her marriage? Nothing would have surprised him, because he knew that women are just like men in their secret adventures: the same stratagems, the same sudden inspirations,…
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On true life

“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we’re alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.” Don DeLillo – Point Omega (2010).
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Quotes of the day

“Words! Words! The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday no tomorrow no today! “Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.” “Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand.” “The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not…
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