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Honorem_accipia: Here I am, myself,
Filled with the black cakes of loneliness and of your death,
Separated from you by all—time, tomb, earth—
And by the nothing..
..Along the path I roamed
-Nocturne: José Asunción Silva by /Transl. R. Fernandez
banknoteworld: Colombia 5,000 Pesos, 2012. On the obverse is a portrait of Colombian poet Jose Asuncion Silva. The back of the note centers a moonlit night scene in a grove with a woman and a pedestal that reflects a microprinted excerpt from Silva’s poem “Nocturno”.
zeus_cbsb: 10-6-1 CALLE JOSE ASUNCION SILVA PONIENTE / CALLE JOSE ASUNCION SILVA SUR H3,BX1 (14:35:22)
jederjones: I loved the scene that juxtaposes Laverde listening to the recording of the black box with the narrator listening to José Asunción Silva's poem 'Nocturno III' ... "y eran una sola sombra larga."
lynaecook: our 2nd video is for our song "los maderos de san juan"
the lyrics are from a children's song/poem my grandma sang to us as kids
spotify:
banknoteworld: Colombia 5,000 Pesos Banknote, 2015. Colored in brown and blue. It features an image of Jose Asuncion Silva who was a notable poet from the 1800's. The reverse features an image of a Colombian paramo ecosystem.
MotorSal13: I just started reading José Asunción Silva’s De sobremesa, and the first few pages are just one guy being mad at his friend for not doing the writing he should be doing, and it’s way too early in the day for a book to come at me like this.
ZeeshanJaanam: not everything in existence is a wound
where blood gushes out.
—JOSÉ ASUNCIÓN SILVA
Alfonso_Peralt: "And I cannot rise and I am dying of anguish and weakness ... Death! ... I am unmoved by thoughts of it; I am sure it is no more horrible or mysterious than Life!"
-José Asunción Silva, After-Dinner Conversation
Faust89823700: Jose Asuncion Silva - For The Reader's Ear
No, that was not passion,
It was the vague tenderness
Inspired by a sickly child,
Lang syne, and moon pale nights.
The spirit sings only
When the heart is moved,
LectersFixation: - She thought of Hannibal’s letter.
“Some of our stars are the same, Clarice.”
Cartagena.
It had to be Cartagena.
The poet he quoted was José Asunción Silva. -
