Kitab-ı Duvduvani

Suyun hafızası vardır… Kanallara iniyor, denize kavuşuyor, yağmur oluğ geri dönerek tekrar musluktaki yerini alıyor… Birbiri ardına düşen ve kuyruğun sonuna giderek tekrar sıraya giren damlaların hangisinin önce olduğunu bilebilir misiniz? Bunu belirlemek için uğraşmaya değer mi? Bahusus, her damla Okeanos’ta yaşadıklarından bir parça bırakırken ve her damlada da Okeanos’tun hafızasından bir cüz varken… Hafıza bulaşıcıdır… Su hatırlar.

Goethe

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Mark Twain

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

inspiration

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

- Pablo Picasso

It is our choices that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities.

- J.K. Rowling

We are Transmitters

As we live, we are transmitters of life.
And when we fail to transmit life, life fails to flow through us.

That is part of the mystery of sex, it is a flow onwards.
Sexless people transmit nothing.

And if, as we work, we can transmit life into our work,
life, still more life, rushes into us to compensate, to be ready
and we ripple with life through the days.

Even if it is a woman making an apple dumpling, or a man a stool,
if life goes into the pudding, good is the pudding
good is the stool,
content is the woman, with fresh life rippling in to her,
content is the man.

Give, and it shall be given unto you
is still the truth about life.
15 But giving life is not so easy.
It doesn’t mean handing it out to some mean fool, or letting the living dead eat you up.
It means kindling the life-quality where it was not,
even if it’s only in the whiteness of a washed pocket-handkerchief.

by D.H. Lawrence

ay kes bunu bir yere yapıştır

“zira hayatın akışına kapılmak yerine hayatı istediğine yakın bir yerde akıtmak [önemli olan]“

cennet

Yo siempre me había imaginado el paraíso bajo la especie de una biblioteca.

Jorge Louis Borges

çeviri: Ben cenneti hep bir çeşit kütüphane olarak düşlemişimdir.

Kalfa ile Kıralıça

“Nereye bakıyor?” dedi çömezin teki ustasına.
“Pers ülkesine,” dedi usta.
“Perspektif sahibi adam,” dedi çömez.

Huylandı usta çömezinden.

- İlhami Algör.

Pyramids

Nothing but stars, scattered across the blackness as though the Creator had smashed the windscreen of his car and hadn’t bothered to stop to sweep up the pieces.

Terry Pratchett.