Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving.

Moreover the writer invents himself as a character in this form. He shapes himself from the shards of the everyday, from the truth of that daily life. Which is also a truth not to be scorned.

– Anna Kamienska –

Ph : Francesca Woodman –

In a manner of speaking

I just want to say

that I could never forget the way

you told me everything

by saying nothing

In a manner of speaking

I don’t understand

how love in silence becomes reprimand

But the way that I feel about you

is beyond words

Oh give me the words

Give me the words

that tell me nothing

Oh give me the words

Give me the words

that tell me everything …

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Alice Phoebe Lou – In a manner of speaking – Tuxedomoon (Cover)

Ph : Florian Weiler