31 mai 2014

Cântec de dor

James Crawford Thom - Children in a Wood

Ca o sirenă din limpezi depărtări, glasul copilăriei îmi cântă amintirile. Din inima pământului unde am deschis pleopele întâia oară, din lutul pe care am plâns și-am alergat desculță, în culorile tulburi ce acoperă văzduhul.

Ca un cântec de dor, la granițele timpului, sub cerul care miroase a ploaie, glasul copilăriei mă răscolește profund. Ființa mea este lutul ce răsuflă și se risipește-n zări, vlăstarii copilăriei pierdute azi îi culeg, ca un copil care-și plimbă în întuneric tălpile goale prin iarbă.

30 mai 2014

Movie of the Day: The Seventh Seal (1957)

"I met Death today. We are playing chess."
 -  Drama | Fantasy  -  16 February 1957 (Sweden)

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Max von SydowGunnar BjörnstrandBengt Ekerot

Memorable Quotes


1. Antonius Block: Is it so terribly inconceivable to comprehend God with one's senses? Why does he hide in a cloud of half-promises and unseen miracles? How can we believe in the faithful when we lack faith? What will happen to us who want to believe, but can not? What about those who neither want to nor can believe? Why can't I kill God in me? Why does He live on in me in a humiliating way - despite my wanting to evict Him from my heart? Why is He, despite all, a mocking reality I can't be rid of?


2. Antonius Block: I want knowledge! Not faith, not assumptions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover His face and speak to me.

Death: But He remains silent.

Antonius Block: I call out to Him in the darkness. But it's as if no one was there.

Death: Perhaps there isn't anyone.

Antonius Block: Then life is a preposterous horror. No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness.

Death: Most people think neither of death nor nothingness.

Antonius Block: But one day you stand at the edge of life and face darkness.

Death: That day.

Antonius Block: I understand what you mean.


3. Antonius Block: I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light. Mikael asleep, Jof with his lyre. I shall try to remember our talk. I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk. It will be a sign to me, and a great sufficiency.




4. Antonius Block: Nothing escapes you!

Death: Nothing escapes me. No one escapes me.


5. Antonius Block: Who are you?

Death: I am Death.

Antonius Block: Have you come for me?

Death: I have long walked by your side.

Antonius Block: So I have noticed.

Death: Are you ready?

Antonius Block: My body is ready, but I am not.



6. Antonius Block: I met Death today. We are playing chess.


7. Death: When next we meet, the hour will strike for you and your friends.

Antonius Block: And will you reveal your secrets?

Death: I have no secrets.

Antonius Block: So do you know nothing?

Death: I am unknowing.

26 mai 2014

Geo Bogza - Orion (1978)

"Orice om pe care nu pot să-l iubesc este pentru mine un izvor de adâncă tristeţe.
Orice om pe care l-am iubit şi nu pot să-l mai iubesc înseamnă pentru mine un pas spre moarte.
Atunci când n-am să mai pot iubi pe nimeni, am să mor.
Voi, cei care ştiţi că meritaţi dragostea mea, aveţi grijăsă nu mă ucideţi."

Geo Bogza - Orion (1978)

The Divine Comedy

Midway along the journey of our life 
I woke to find myself in a dark wood, 
for I had wandered off from the straight path.

Dante, The Divine Comedy

24 mai 2014

Definiția sublimului. Lucian Blaga (Gorunul).

În limpezi depărtări aud din pieptul unui turn
cum bate ca o inimă un clopot
şi-n zvonuri dulci
îmi pare
că stropi de linişte îmi curg prin vine, nu de sânge.

Gorunule din margine de codru,
de ce mă-nvinge
cu aripi moi atâta pace
când zac în umbra ta
şi mă dezmierzi cu frunza-ţi jucăuşă?

O, cine ştie? - Poate că
din trunchiul tău îmi vor ciopli
nu peste mult sicriul,
şi liniştea
ce voi gusta-o între scândurile lui
o simt pesemne de acum:
o simt cum frunza ta mi-o picură în suflet -
şi mut
ascult cum creşte-n trupul tău sicriul,
sicriul meu,
cu fiecare clipă care trece,
gorunule din margine de codru.

- Lucian Blaga (Gorunul)

Movie of the Day: Vampyr (1932)

Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey
  -  Horror  -  6 May 1932 (Germany)

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writers:  Sheridan Le Fanu (based on a book by), Christen Jul (screenplay)
Stars:  Julian WestMaurice SchutzRena Mandel

Photo of the Day: Lisbon, Portugal (1969)

The Age of Innocence...
© Eduardo Gageiro, Bairro Alto, Lisbon, Portugal (1969)

15 mai 2014

Era nespus de dezbrăcată...

"Era nespus de dezbrăcată şi falnici arbori, indiscreţi, La geam se-nghesuiau s-o vadă, apropiindu-se sireţi." - Arthur Rimbaud

12 mai 2014

Movie of the Day: Bonnie & Clyde (1967)

Bonnie (Faye Dunaway) & Clyde (Warren Beatty) (1967)
 -  Biography | Crime | Drama  -  13 August 1967 (USA)

Director: Arthur Penn
Writers: David Newman, Robert Benton
Stars: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway

Memorable Quotes

Bonnie Parker: I don't have no mama. No family either.
Clyde Barrow: Hey, I'm your family.
Bonnie Parker: You know what, when we started out, I thought we was really goin' somewhere. This is it. We're just goin', huh?
Clyde Barrow: I love you.

Bonnie Parker: You're good!
Clyde Barrow: I ain't good. I'm the best!
Bonnie Parker: And modest!

Bonnie Parker: What would you do if some miracle happened and we could walk out of here tomorrow morning and start all over again clean? No record and nobody after us, huh?
Clyde Barrow: Well, uh, I guess I'd do it all different. First off, I wouldn't live in the same state where we pull our jobs. We'd live in another state. We'd stay clean there and then when we'd take a bank, we'd go into the other state.

Bonnie Parker: [reading her poem] You've heard the story of Jesse James / Of how he lived and died / If you're still in need / Of something to read / Here's the story of Bonnie and Clyde. / Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang / I'm sure you all have read / How they rob and steal / And those who squeal / Are usually found dyin' or dead. / They call them cold-hearted killers / They say they are heartless and mean / But I say this with pride / That I once knew Clyde / When he was honest and upright and clean. / But the laws fooled around / Kept takin' him down / And lockin' him up in a cell / Till he said to me: "I'll never be free / So I'll meet a few of them in Hell." / If a policeman is killed in Dallas / And they have no clue to guide / If they can't find a fiend / They just wipe their slate clean / And hang it on Bonnie and Clyde / If they try to act like citizens / And rent them a nice little flat / About the third night / They're invited to fight / By a sub-guns' rat-a-tat-tat. / Some day, they'll go down together / They'll bury them side by side / To a few, it'll be grief / To the law, a relief / But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.