Nicolas Robert
@robertsnickc.bsky.social
Writer & translator. Art, music, the natural world, the state of the world.
"So the paradox is, it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.“
~ Slavoj Žižek
"So the paradox is, it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.“
~ Slavoj Žižek
Do you ne’er think what wondrous beings these?
Do you ne’er think who made them, & who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man e’er caught!
H.W. Longfellow (1842)
#Photography
Do you ne’er think who made them, & who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man e’er caught!
H.W. Longfellow (1842)
#Photography
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Do you ne’er think what wondrous beings these?
Do you ne’er think who made them, & who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man e’er caught!
H.W. Longfellow (1842)
#Photography
Do you ne’er think who made them, & who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man e’er caught!
H.W. Longfellow (1842)
#Photography
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
From ‘The Metropolitan Tower Collection’ & ‘One-Sixth of a Second.’ #Photography by Steve Greer #art
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
From ‘The Metropolitan Tower Collection’ & ‘One-Sixth of a Second.’ #Photography by Steve Greer #art
‘Patterns in the Sky.’
A flock of birds sweeps across the sky in a graceful synchronised arc beside a towering city building, forming a delicate pattern – a reminder that even in dense urban spaces, the rhythms of nature still unfold above us.
#Photography by Raghuvamsh Chavali, #Canada #art
A flock of birds sweeps across the sky in a graceful synchronised arc beside a towering city building, forming a delicate pattern – a reminder that even in dense urban spaces, the rhythms of nature still unfold above us.
#Photography by Raghuvamsh Chavali, #Canada #art
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
‘Patterns in the Sky.’
A flock of birds sweeps across the sky in a graceful synchronised arc beside a towering city building, forming a delicate pattern – a reminder that even in dense urban spaces, the rhythms of nature still unfold above us.
#Photography by Raghuvamsh Chavali, #Canada #art
A flock of birds sweeps across the sky in a graceful synchronised arc beside a towering city building, forming a delicate pattern – a reminder that even in dense urban spaces, the rhythms of nature still unfold above us.
#Photography by Raghuvamsh Chavali, #Canada #art
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.”
~ Albert Camus (1913-1960)
#Photography
~ Albert Camus (1913-1960)
#Photography
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
“If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.”
~ Albert Camus (1913-1960)
#Photography
~ Albert Camus (1913-1960)
#Photography
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"Excuse me Sir, the train for a better world...?"
Bristol Railway Station, England.
#Photography by George W. Hales (1936)
Bristol Railway Station, England.
#Photography by George W. Hales (1936)
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"Excuse me Sir, the train for a better world...?"
Bristol Railway Station, England.
#Photography by George W. Hales (1936)
Bristol Railway Station, England.
#Photography by George W. Hales (1936)
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.
~ Haruki Murakami (b. 1949)
#Photography by Victor Alonso.
~ Haruki Murakami (b. 1949)
#Photography by Victor Alonso.
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.
~ Haruki Murakami (b. 1949)
#Photography by Victor Alonso.
~ Haruki Murakami (b. 1949)
#Photography by Victor Alonso.
Cloud, journey of water through the sky - cloud, cradle of infant water, rocking itself in the air flooded with birds-
Cloud : celestial childhood of the rain...
~ Dulce María Loynaz (1902-1997)
#Painting by Shabs Beigh.
Cloud : celestial childhood of the rain...
~ Dulce María Loynaz (1902-1997)
#Painting by Shabs Beigh.
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Cloud, journey of water through the sky - cloud, cradle of infant water, rocking itself in the air flooded with birds-
Cloud : celestial childhood of the rain...
~ Dulce María Loynaz (1902-1997)
#Painting by Shabs Beigh.
Cloud : celestial childhood of the rain...
~ Dulce María Loynaz (1902-1997)
#Painting by Shabs Beigh.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.”
~ Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
#Illustration by Fernando Vicente from ‘Madame Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert.
~ Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
#Illustration by Fernando Vicente from ‘Madame Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert.
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.”
~ Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
#Illustration by Fernando Vicente from ‘Madame Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert.
~ Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
#Illustration by Fernando Vicente from ‘Madame Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert.
‘Ausfahrt Gare Du Nord’ (1949), ‘Tresterclub’ (1947) & ’Aja Iskander Schmidlin’ (1970). #Photography by René Groebli #art
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
‘Ausfahrt Gare Du Nord’ (1949), ‘Tresterclub’ (1947) & ’Aja Iskander Schmidlin’ (1970). #Photography by René Groebli #art
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Moods, movements,
Thoughts and feelings
Ever shifting
Inner patterns
Reflect still
Other inner
Chemical-genetic interacts
Present here
At this moment.
Behind the
Series of events
Which I
Call Me
What is my own?
~ William Segal, ‘Openings,’ (1998)
#Photography, Otto Litzel, Girl With Statue, 1960
Thoughts and feelings
Ever shifting
Inner patterns
Reflect still
Other inner
Chemical-genetic interacts
Present here
At this moment.
Behind the
Series of events
Which I
Call Me
What is my own?
~ William Segal, ‘Openings,’ (1998)
#Photography, Otto Litzel, Girl With Statue, 1960
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Moods, movements,
Thoughts and feelings
Ever shifting
Inner patterns
Reflect still
Other inner
Chemical-genetic interacts
Present here
At this moment.
Behind the
Series of events
Which I
Call Me
What is my own?
~ William Segal, ‘Openings,’ (1998)
#Photography, Otto Litzel, Girl With Statue, 1960
Thoughts and feelings
Ever shifting
Inner patterns
Reflect still
Other inner
Chemical-genetic interacts
Present here
At this moment.
Behind the
Series of events
Which I
Call Me
What is my own?
~ William Segal, ‘Openings,’ (1998)
#Photography, Otto Litzel, Girl With Statue, 1960