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  • Poems of an Indian summer

    To build one's house is very much like making one’s will. When the time does arrive for building this house, it is not the mason’s nor the craftsman’s moment, but that moment in which every man makes one poem, at any rate, in his life. And so, in our towns and their outskirts, we have had during the last forty years not so much houses as poems, poems of an Indian summer, for a house is the crowning of a career.

    Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture
    1. ​​Rand Hill​​
    2. ​​Japanese Death Poems​​
    3. ​​Each ruler commissioned his own garden​​
    4. ​​The Abode of Fancy​​
    • melancholy
    • home
    • death
    • poetry
  • Every love story is a ghost story

    David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
    • love
    • melancholy
    • euphony
  • l(a

    A Poem by e.e. cummings

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    • loneliness
    • melancholy

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  • Upstream Color Original Soundtrack

    1. Leaves Expanded May Be Prevailing Blue Mixed With Yellow Of The Sand
    2. I Used To Wonder At The Halo Of Light Around My Shadow And Would Fancy Myself One Of The Elect
    3. Fearing That They Would Be Light-headed For Want Of Food And Also Sleep
    4. Stirring Them Up As The Keeper Of A Menagerie His Wild Beasts
    5. The Finest Qualities Of Our Nature Like The Bloom On Fruits Can Be Preserved
    6. Perhaps The Wildest Sound That Is Ever Heard Here Making The Woods Ring Far And Wide
    7. I Love To Be Alone
    8. A Young Forest Growing Up Under Your Meadows
    9. Their Roots Reaching Quite Under The House
    10. The Rays Which Stream Through The Shutter Will Be No Longer Remembered When The Shutter Is Wholly Removed
    11. After Soaking Two Years And Then Lying High Six Months It Was Perfectly Sound Though Waterlogged Past Drying
    12. The Sun Is But A Morning Star
    13. A Low And Distant Sound Gradually Swelling And Increasing
    14. As If It Would Have A Universal And Memorable Ending
    15. A Sullen Rush And Roar
    Shane Carruth, Upstream Color
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    1. ​​Walden​​
    2. ​​I love to be alone​​
    • euphony
    • nature
    • loneliness
    • melancholy
    • sound
    • ending
  • And thus the heart will break

    They mourn, but smile at length; and, smiling, mourn:
    The tree will wither long before it fall:
    The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn;
    The roof-tree sinks, but moulders on the hall
    In massy hoariness; the ruined wall
    Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone;
    The bars survive the captive they enthral;
    The day drags through though storms keep out the sun;
    And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.

    Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
    1. ​​Scenery​​
    2. ​​A little act of hope​​
    • time
    • love
    • melancholy
    • i
  • Zero Mass

    EricOrrZeroMass.jpg

    On an autumn night in 2009, I experienced a version of this piece installed in a stone barn in rural France. The evening was moonless and cold; I stood with two friends inside the piece for the better part of an hour, as our eyes adjusted to almost total darkness, before any of us could begin to see one another. It was the definition of a liminal, or barely perceptible, experience. Eric Orr, who died in 1998, was involved with Zen Buddhism and considered these pieces to be spaces for meditation. Experiencing them as intended requires the visitor to focus quietly on the mechanics of their own perception.

    Eric Orr, Phenomenal: Exhibited Works
    • zen
    • melancholy
  • I have a dream every night

    I have a dream every night. My mom had it. And her mom had it. It's like a memory. It's a picture of the world as it was. But it's terrible.

    And it burns,
    and it fills me every night,
    and I can't sleep.

    ...I don't want the house.
    I don't want the dream.
    I don't want anything here.

    Nicholas Ashe Bateman, The Wanting Mare
    www.imdb.com
    • dreams
    • melancholy
    • destiny
  • Hello darkness, my old friend

    Hello darkness, my old friend
    I’ve come to talk with you again

    Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel, The Sound Of Silence
    • darkness
    • melancholy
  • Ending is better than mending

    “We always throw away old clothes. Ending is better than mending, ending is better than mending, ending is better…”

    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    • novelty
    • repair
    • trash
    • waste
    • melancholy
    • ending
  • Possible lives

    Watching Alice talk, light a candle that had blown out, rush into the kitchen with the plates, or brush a strand of blonde hair from her face, I found myself falling victim to romantic nostalgia, which descends whenever we are faced with those who might have been our lovers, but whom chance has decreed we will never properly know. The possibility of an alternative love story is a reminder that the life we are leading is only one of a myriad of possible lives, and it is the impossibility of leading them all that plunges us into sadness.

    Alain de Botton, On Love
    • melancholy
    • chance
  • Shortlist of interesting spaces

    Nick Trombley, barnsworthburning.net
    • craft
    • work
    • walking
    • www
    • notetaking
    • words
    • euphony
    • melancholy
    • zen
    • darkness
    • gardens
  • The world is always breaking

    So the world is always breaking; it's in its nature to break.

    Steven J. Jackson, Rethinking Repair
    • melancholy
    • decay
  • You are what you love

    Donald: I loved Sarah, Charles. It was mine, that love. I owned it. Even Sarah didn't have the right to take it away. I can love whoever I want.

    Charlie: But she thought you were pathetic.

    Donald: That was her business, not mine. You are what you love, not what loves you. That's what I decided a long time ago.

    Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation.
    • love
    • melancholy
  • The tower

    Sketch for The Tower – a cheese grater.

    The tower is just a common grater. It is not used to look out toward a distant world from above, but only to slice, grind and grate its surroundings.

    Anyone who stepped inside would see an irremediably cold, metallic, empty void, and a few scattered holes where the world literally seeps through in pieces. It is a sad project.

    Smiljan Radić, Every Thing
    1. ​​After the Fair​​
    • architecture
    • melancholy
    • darkness
  • We outgrow love

    We outgrow love like other things
    And put it in the drawer,
    Till it an antique fashion shows
    Like costumes grandsires wore.

    Emily Dickinson, The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
    • love
    • melancholy
  • Never any place I was meant to be

    Supposing I found myself chasing another fly ball and ran head-on into a basketball backboard, supposing I woke up once again lying under an arbor with a baseball glove under my head, what words of wisdom could this man of thirty-odd years bring himself to utter? Maybe something like: This is no place for me.

    This was never any place I was meant to be.

    Haruki Murakami, A Slow Boat to China
    • melancholy
    • wisdom
    • age
  • Saudade

    Saudade is a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one cares for and/or loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again.

    Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org
    • melancholy
    • nostalgia

    For a long time I've considered the word melancholy to have a kind of nostalgic association, though I've also known for a while that's not accurate. Saudade captures the feeling which I always thought melancholy meant.

  • UNLESS

    The Lorax said nothing. Just gave me a glance.
    Just gave me a very sad, sad backward glance,
    as he lifted himself by the seat of his pants.
    And I'll never forget the grim look on his face
    when he hoisted himself and took leave of this place,
    through a hole in the smog, without leaving a trace.
    And all that the Lorax left here in this mess
    was a small pile of rocks, with one word...
    UNLESS.

    Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
    • melancholy
  • Tragic colors

    Life may have to show itself to us in some of its authentically tragic colors before we can begin to grow properly visually responsive to its subtler offerings.

    Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
    • melancholy
  • An evening identical to this

    He feels envy toward those who now believe they have once before lived an evening identical to this and who think they were happy, that time.

    Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
    • melancholy

    Cities & Memory 1

  • An invisible thread

    Also in Raissa, city of sadness, there runs an invisible thread that binds one living being to another for a moment, then unravels, then is stretched again between moving points as it draws new and rapid patterns so that at every second the unhappy city contains a happy city unaware of its own existence.

    Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
    • melancholy

    Hidden Cities 2

  • All that is beautiful and lovely

    You are so handsome and you look so happy. But deep inside your eyes there is no gaiety, there is only sorrow, as though your eyes knew that happiness did not exist and that all that is beautiful and lovely does not stay with us long.

    Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
    • melancholy
  • They would never know

    She would never know him. He would never know her. Human relations were all like that.

    Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
    • melancholy
  • Empty dreams

    But I know as well as anyone that these are empty dreams, and that having come this far, we cannot turn back.

    Jun'ichirō Tanizaki & Thomas J. Harper, In Praise of Shadows
    • melancholy
  • How painful life here would be

    A mountain village
    Where there is not even hope
    Of a visitor:
    If not for the loneliness,
    How painful life here would be.

    — Saigyo (Donald Keene translation)

    Donald Richie, A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
    • melancholy
    • solitude
  • I have heard the mermaids singing

    Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
    I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
    I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

    I do not think that they will sing to me.

    T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
    • melancholy
  • Bitterness

    The quality which has no name includes these simpler, sweeter qualities. But it is so ordinary as well, that it somehow reminds us of the passing of our own life.

    It is a slightly bitter quality.

    Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building
    • melancholy
  • It is going to pass

    The character of nature can’t arise without the presence and the consciousness of death.

    When we make our own attempt to create nature in the world around us, and succeed, we cannot escape the fact that we are going to die. This quality, when it is reached, in human things, is always sad; it makes us sad; and we can even say that any place where a man tries to make the quality, and be like nature, cannot be true, unless we can feel the slight presence of this haunting sadness there, because we know at the same time we enjoy it, that it is going to pass.

    Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building
    • nature
    • melancholy
    • death
  • The great soundless whirl of darkness

    I could not know that even then the little light was being drawn irresistibly into the great soundless whirl of darkness and that I was watching a light that was destined soon to blink out and disappear.

    Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro
    • light
    • darkness
    • melancholy
  • Not them he despised

    For all his unresponsiveness to others’ affection, I now see, it was not them he despised but himself.

    Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro
    • melancholy
  • Leaving

    After a while, if you don't leave, then everything else begins to leave.

    Lawrence Wechler & Robert Irwin, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
    • melancholy
  • Be yourself

    "Just be yourself, mate! Be yourself in a relationship."

    ...What if they don't like you, man?

    What if every relationship you've ever been in is just somebody slowly figuring out they didn't like you as much as they hoped they would?

    James Acaster, Repertoire
    • melancholy
  • Distraction

    To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it's because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that's where phrases like 'deadly dull' or 'excruciatingly dull' come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient, low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from feeling, or at least from feeling directly or with our full attention.

    David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
    • boredom
    • melancholy
    • anxiety
    • attention
    • pain
  • Japanese Death Poems

    A Book by Yoel Hoffman
    www.goodreads.com
    1. ​​The haiku​​
    2. ​​Spring snow​​
    3. ​​An entrance, an exit​​
    4. ​​Poppies​​
    5. ​​Coolness will rise​​
    1. ​​Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die​​
    2. ​​Poems of an Indian summer​​
    3. ​​He only who has lived with the beautiful​​
    • death
    • poetry
    • nature
    • melancholy
    • zen
  • Wittgenstein's Mistress

    A Novel by David Markson
    www.goodreads.com
    1. ​​I think very well of him indeed​​
    2. ​​A perfect circle​​
    3. ​​The Eiffel Tower​​
    4. ​​Ceci n'est pas une pipe​​
    5. ​​Erased de Kooning Drawing​​
    1. ​​Designed to be ruins​​
    2. ​​Several Short Sentences About Writing​​
    3. ​​Writing. By Tully Hansen​​
    4. ​​Herb Quine Interviews Herb Quine​​
    • philosophy
    • art
    • loneliness
    • melancholy
  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

    A Poem by Lord Byron
    www.gutenberg.org
    1. ​​And thus the heart will break​​
    2. ​​Words which are things​​
    3. ​​There is a pleasure in the pathless woods​​
    • love
    • nature
    • loneliness
    • melancholy
  • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

    A Poem by T.S. Eliot
    www.poetryfoundation.org
    1. ​​A pair of ragged claws​​
    2. ​​Do I dare disturb the universe?​​
    3. ​​That is not it at all​​
    4. ​​I have heard the mermaids singing​​
    • loneliness
    • melancholy
  • To the Lighthouse

    A Novel by Virginia Woolf
    gutenberg.net.au
    1. ​​All the lives to be​​
    2. ​​The alphabet​​
    3. ​​Gone crooked​​
    4. ​​Extinguished​​
    5. ​​A thing you could ruffle with your breath​​
    • solitude
    • melancholy
    • loneliness
  • 500 Days of Summer

    A Film by Marc Webb, Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
    www.imdb.com
    1. ​​I think you should look again​​
    2. ​​It just wasn't me you were right about​​
    • love
    • melancholy
    • hope
  • The Topography of Tears

    A Book by Rose-Lynn Fisher
    www.rose-lynnfisher.com
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    The Topography of Tears is a visual investigation of tears photographed through an optical, standard light microscope, a vintage Zeiss from the late 1970's, mounted with a digital microscopy camera.

    Tears are the medium of our most primal language in moments as unrelenting as death, as basic as hunger, and as complex as a rite of passage. They are the evidence of our inner life overflowing its boundaries, spilling over into consciousness. Wordless and spontaneous, they release us to the possibility of realignment, reunion, catharsis, intractable resistance short-circuited. Shedding tears, shedding old skin. It’s as though each one of our tears carries a microcosm of the collective human experience, like one drop of an ocean.

    • melancholy
    • emotion
    • topology
    • geometry
  • I've designed it that way

    A Quote by Townes Van Zandt
    genius.com

    I don't envision a very long life for myself.
    Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, you know?

    I've designed it that way.

    1. ​​Your life adds up​​
    • death
    • work
    • design
    • art
    • melancholy
    • life
  • Phantom Regret by Jim

    A Poem by Jim Carrey & The Weeknd
    genius.com

    And if your broken heart's heavy when you step on the scale
    You'll be lighter than air when they pull back the veil
    Consider the flowers, they don't try to look right
    They just open their petals and turn to the light

    • melancholy
    • nature
    • death
    • gardens
  • Home Star

    An Article by Geoff Manaugh
    bldgblog.com
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    I am a sucker for stories in which seeds of cosmic revelation are found hidden inside everyday materials, especially when those materials are architectural in form.

    In this case, it was “the imprint of a rare solar storm” that left traces in the rings of trees cut into logs by Vikings and used to build cabins 1,000 years ago on the Atlantic coast of Canada.

    …While there is obviously more to say about the science behind this discovery—all of which you can read here—what interests me is simply the idea that astral events, cosmic storms, stellar weather, electromagnetic pulses from space, whatever you want to imagine, leave traces all around us. That in the depths of our buildings, in our walls and floors, even in the wooden dowels of mass-produced furniture, there can be evidence of immensely powerful and beautiful things, and I would like to remember to look for that again. It’s been a miserable couple of years.

    • melancholy
    • time
  • Imperfectly locked doors quietly waiting

    A Fragment by Geoff Manaugh
    davidmaisel.com

    “Without vitamin C,” Anthony writes, “we cannot produce collagen, an essential component of bones, cartilage, tendons and other connective tissues. Collagen binds our wounds, but that binding is replaced continually throughout our lives. Thus in advanced scurvy”—reached when the body has gone too long without vitamin C—“old wounds long thought healed will magically, painfully reappear.”

    In a sense, there is no such thing as healing. From paper cuts to surgical scars, our bodies are catalogues of wounds: imperfectly locked doors quietly waiting, sooner or later, to spring back open.

    • pain
    • melancholy
    • repair
    • health
    • euphony
  • The Sheaves

    A Poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson
    www.poetrynook.com
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    Where long the shadows of the wind had rolled,
    Green wheat was yielding to the change assigned;
    And as by some vast magic undivined
    The world was turning slowly into gold.
    Like nothing that was ever bought or sold
    It waited there, the body and the mind;
    And with a mighty meaning of a kind
    That tells the more the more it is not told.

    So in a land where all days are not fair,
    Fair days went on till on another day
    A thousand golden sheaves were lying there,
    Shining and still, but not for long to stay—
    As if a thousand girls with golden hair
    Might rise from where they slept and go away.

    • farming
    • seasons
    • change
    • melancholy
  • Crown

    A Poem by Kay Ryan
    www.poetryfoundation.org

    Too much rain
    loosens trees.
    In the hills giant oaks
    fall upon their knees.
    You can touch parts
    you have no right to—
    places only birds
    should fly to.

    • nature
    • trees
    • melancholy
    • touch
  • When all of my friends are on at once

    A Website by Laurel Schwulst
    allmyfriendsatonce.com
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    Memories of being online

    • adolescence
    • melancholy
    • nostalgia
    • microsites
  • Bo Burnham: Inside

    A Film by Bo Burnham
    en.wikipedia.org
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    1. ​​It's a beautiful day to stay inside​​
    2. ​​Went out to look for a reason to hide again​​
    3. ​​Don't wanna know​​
    4. ​​A little bit of everything all of the time​​
    5. ​​That funny feeling​​
    1. ​​Poioumenon​​
    2. ​​But we're not there​​
    • humor
    • solitude
    • melancholy
    • www
  • The Waiting Place

    A Poem by Dr. Seuss
    silverbirchpress.wordpress.com

    Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come,
    or a plane to go or the mail to come,
    or the rain to go or the phone to ring,
    or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or No
    or waiting for their hair to grow.

    Everyone is just waiting.

    • waiting
    • anxiety
    • time
    • melancholy

    Excerpt from Oh, The Places You'll Go!.

  • All There Is

    A Song by Gregory Alan Isakov

    And I lied to you when I knocked upon your door.
    See, I was nowhere near your neighborhood.

    • love
    • melancholy
  • You're living in your very last house

    A Song by Lo-Fang
    • euphony
    • home
    • age
    • melancholy
  • Dolor

    A Poem by Theodore Roethke
    www.goodreads.com

    I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils.

    • work
    • melancholy
    • bureaucracy

See also:
  1. love
  2. nature
  3. loneliness
  4. death
  5. euphony
  6. darkness
  7. solitude
  8. time
  9. zen
  10. work
  11. age
  12. anxiety
  13. pain
  14. poetry
  15. art
  16. nostalgia
  17. ending
  18. home
  19. repair
  20. www
  21. gardens
  22. chance
  23. wisdom
  24. i
  25. light
  26. architecture
  27. boredom
  28. attention
  29. philosophy
  30. adolescence
  31. microsites
  32. sound
  33. bureaucracy
  34. novelty
  35. trash
  36. waste
  37. craft
  38. walking
  39. notetaking
  40. words
  41. waiting
  42. humor
  43. decay
  44. trees
  45. touch
  46. farming
  47. seasons
  48. change
  49. health
  50. emotion
  51. topology
  52. geometry
  53. dreams
  54. destiny
  55. design
  56. life
  57. hope
  1. Alain de Botton
  2. T.S. Eliot
  3. Virginia Woolf
  4. Italo Calvino
  5. Lord Byron
  6. Christopher Alexander
  7. Natsume Sōseki
  8. David Foster Wallace
  9. Dr. Seuss
  10. Geoff Manaugh
  11. Donald Richie
  12. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
  13. Thomas J. Harper
  14. Haruki Murakami
  15. Herman Hesse
  16. Smiljan Radić
  17. Lawrence Wechler
  18. Robert Irwin
  19. James Acaster
  20. Yoel Hoffman
  21. David Markson
  22. Emily Dickinson
  23. e.e. cummings
  24. Laurel Schwulst
  25. Shane Carruth
  26. Theodore Roethke
  27. Lo-Fang
  28. Le Corbusier
  29. Aldous Huxley
  30. Gregory Alan Isakov
  31. Nick Trombley
  32. Bo Burnham
  33. Charlie Kaufman
  34. Steven J. Jackson
  35. Kay Ryan
  36. Edwin Arlington Robinson
  37. Rose-Lynn Fisher
  38. Paul Simon
  39. Art Garfunkel
  40. Nicholas Ashe Bateman
  41. Jim Carrey
  42. The Weeknd
  43. Eric Orr
  44. Townes Van Zandt
  45. Marc Webb
  46. Scott Neustadter
  47. Michael H. Weber