I longed with all my heart for a fresh green silence between living water and forests.
Renée Vivien, tr. by Jeanette H. Foster, from “A Woman Appeared To Me,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
Mean Streets (1973)
Director: Martin Scorsese Writers: Martin Scorsese and Mardik Martin DoP: Kent L. Wakeford
‘The Godfather’ - Marlon Brando, James Caan, and Robert Duvall sharing a laugh off-camera during the filming of the famous wedding scene
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Only God Forgives (2013) | dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Cinematography by Larry Smith
Mean Streets (1973) | Dir. Martin Scorsese
Charlie / Harvey Keitel
The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand. The kind you can feel in your heart.
Your soul, the spiritual side.
And ya know... the worst of the two ... is the spiritual.
Shoji Ueda /Japanese, 1913 -2000
Untitled, from ‘Seasons of the Children’, 1972
Gelatin silver print
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“I understood the necessity of beauty, of an atmosphere of silence, of a void even in which the imagination might blossom.”
— Meena Alexander, from “Fault Lines,” originally published c. 1993 (via violentwavesofemotion)
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
John Berger (via memoryslandscape)