musique musique

cuando cae la noche

me añoras

lo sé

blanca

tu olor

el roce de las olas contra la roca

tu mirada, blanca, nítida.

la brisa.

la tierra firme bajo mis pies.

y yo, blanca, desdibujada,

que pertenezco a ningún lugar

josi faye

When you can’t create you can work.

Henry Miller (1891-1980). American writer.

In 1932-1933, while working on what would become his first published novel, Tropic of Cancer, Miller devised and adhered to a stringent daily routine to propel his writing. Among it was this list of eleven commandments, found in Henry Miller on Writing — a fine addition to these 9 essential books on reading and writing, part of this year’s resolution to read more and write better.

COMMANDMENTS

Work on one thing at a time until finished.
Start no more new books, add no more new material to ‘Black Spring.’
Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
When you can’t create you can work.
Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.

Under a part titled Daily Program, his routine also featured the following wonderful blueprint for productivity, inspiration, and mental health:
If groggy, type notes and allocate, as stimulus.

DAILY PROGRAM

MORNINGS:

If in fine fettle, write.


AFTERNOONS:

Work of section in hand, following plan of section scrupulously. No intrusions, no diversions. Write to finish one section at a time, for good and all.


EVENINGS:

See friends. Read in cafés.

Explore unfamiliar sections — on foot if wet, on bicycle if dry.

Write, if in mood, but only on Minor program.

Paint if empty or tired.

Make Notes. Make Charts, Plans. Make corrections of MS.

Note: Allow sufficient time during daylight to make an occasional visit to museums or an occasional sketch or an occasional bike ride. Sketch in cafés and trains and streets. Cut the movies! Library for references once a week.

Via Brain Pickings: Henry Miller on writing

quién finge con quién

Parlato

“No solo el poeta es un fingidor.

Yo soy un fingidor; yo, no el poeta.

Ahora habla el hombre:

Sí, soy un fingidor.

Ved mi sonrisa. ”

[Ángel González, "Nada grave", Visor, 2001.]

Contrariando el verso de Pessoa, Ángel Gozález, 

de la generación del 50, poeta español del sigle XX.

A través de: El rostro perdido.

en: No solo el poeta es un fingidor.

sintámonos

Hablemos de cosas,
sintamos.
busquémonos para mirarnos
busquemos excusas para mirarnos,
mirémonos sin excusas
sin argumentos
sin prisas
con los ojos, con la boca
con las manos,
con la boca.

Ahndraya Parlato

leer, aprender, ver

Recomendaciones para leer filosofía.

Wittgenstein

1. El banquete, Platón 
2. Ensayos, Montaigne 
3. Pensées, Pascal 
4. Aforismos, Lichtenberg 
5. Investigación sobre el entendimiento humano, Hume 
6. Diccionario filosófico, Voltaire 
7. Sobre la libertad, Stuart Mill 
8. Temor y temblor, Søren, qué va, qué va, qué va yo leo a  Kierkegaard  
9. Así habló Zaratustra. (Un libro para todos y para nadie), Nietzsche 
10. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,  Wittgenstein  
11. El malestar en la cultura, Freud 
12. El segundo sexo,  Simone de Beauvoir


Doce libros de filosofía

qué

Quién
actúa. siguiendo su intuición
qué
intuición
te guía

qué quién cómo soy estoy
aquí
dónde
hablo en susurros
me pierdo en palabras
tropiezo con
palabras
susurras




In sight. Julien Marchal.

Emilie Halpern