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Nicolas Robert

@robertsnickc.bsky.social

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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

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 13h

‘Lorenzo and Isabella’ (the doomed lovers). #Painting by John Everett Millais [1849] #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 13h

‘Hand,’ ‘Hippopotamus’ & ‘Catfish.’ #Sculpture by Kōtarō Takamura (1883-1956) #art

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 13h

T'u Lung, ‘The Travels of Mingliaotse’ (1939)...

#Photography, George Seeley, ‘Black Bowl,’ 1907.

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 14h

#Photography via El Desvan de Sheyenne #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 14h

‘Siberian apple,’ ‘Wild rose’ & ‘Star flower.’ #Painting by Mary Altha Nims (1817-1907) #art

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 14h

“To know yourself as the being beneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love & joy underneath the pain. Freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”

~ Eckhart Tolle (b. 1948)

#Photography, Girls exploring rock pools, Cameron Bay, Canada by State Library of Victoria, c. 1909.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 14h

Two children in front of their wooden hut, Venehjärvi village, Karelia. At the time Finland was still part of the Tsarist Empire. Karelia was the most productive agricultural area of Finland. It was seized by the Soviets in the Winter War, 1944.

#Photography by I. K. Inha (1894) #Finland

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 14h

‘Freesia,’ ‘One/Two Hands’ & ‘Bowl of Rice.’ #Painting by Miho Ichise #art

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 15h

#Drawing by ShouXin #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you, I only discovered her after she passed away & I read her obituary, but she quickly became one of my favourite poets...🙂

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 19h

#Photography from ‘Egypt; the land between sand and Nile (1963).

Ancient water-wheels turned since the time of the Pharaohs, untouched by technical progress through the centuries, with the monotonous chant, "No mother, no sister, will weep for me.”

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 19h

‘Manao tupapau - The Spirit of the Dead Keep Watch.’ #Painting by Paul Gauguin (1892) #art

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 19h

You don’t want to hear the story
of my life, & anyway
I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen

to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.

And anyway it’s the same old story -
a few people just trying,
one way or another,
to survive.

Mostly, I want to be kind...

~ Mary Oliver

#Art, Kawase Hasui

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 19h

Dr. Jane Goodall, RIP.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 19h

#Photography by The Day after Everyday #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 20h

Between what I see and what I say,
Between what I say and what I keep silent,
Between what I keep silent and what I dream,
Between what I dream and what I forget
Poetry.

~ Octavio Paz (1914-1998)

#Drawing by Saul Steinberg, 1949.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 20h

#Sculpture by Igor Mitoraj (1944-2014) #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 20h

‘The Dancing Men.’ #Painting by Denis Sarazhin #art

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, I agree, I've never been to Kenya, but I'm sure it has many wonders to be experienced!

Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22h

Hope you have a very good weekend, Yoshimi!

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d

John Masefield, ‘Sea Fever’ (1902)...

#Photography

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d

Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour’d and unsung.

~ Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

#Painting by Henry Raeburn.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d

“Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.”

~ Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)

#Sculpture, Rome.

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