ellen rogers – satomipoema

You can’t resist love

because the hands want to own the beauty

and not stun years of silence.

Because love is living two-thousand dreams

until the sublime kiss.

– Alda Merini –

Ph : Ellen Rogers

Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.

– Fernando Pessoa –

The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own

– Fernando Pessoa –

Ph : Ellen Rogers

For we are born in others pain, and perish in our own.

– Francis Thompson –

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

– Albert Camus –

It is not the dream of what you’re feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.

– Edmondo de Amicis – Coração

Ph : Ellen Rogers

Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

– Tom Hodgkinson – How to Be Idle

Ph : Ellen Rogers