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One of my favorite poets - Pablo Neruda’s imagery is visceral, primal, but beautiful and melodic.

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

— Pablo Neruda, Love Sonnet XI 

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I Had Dreams

I had beautiful dreams and was
Also happy when awake,
Always thanks to you, never
From myself in myself, so continue to be,
Now, only yourselves for me,
Like yellow flags, irises, girls by the water.

- Janusz Szuber

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“But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

[…] The internet is uncontrollable. And if the internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.”

- Ai Wei Wei on how the internet and those on it will overcome Chinese censorship.

from PSFK.

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The sense of danger must not disappear:
The way is certainly both short and steep,
However gradual it looks from here;
Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

- from W.H. Auden’s “Leap Before You Look”

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“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted.”

- Edwin Land, co-founder of Polaroid

More on what it takes to innovate from the99percent.

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“Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, grasping,…Stop it and just DO!…

Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you – draw & paint your fear and anxiety…

You must practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking, empty. Then you will be able to DO!…

Try to do some BAD work – the worst you can think of and see what happens but mainly relax and let everything go to hell – you are not responsible for the world – you are only responsible for your work – so DO IT. And don’t think that your work has to conform to any preconceived form, idea or flavor. It can be anything you want it to be…

I know that you (or anyone) can only work so much and the rest of the time you are left with your thoughts. But when you work or before your work you have to empty you [sic] mind and concentrate on what you are doing. After you do something it is done and that’s that. After a while you can see some are better than others but also you can see what direction you are going. I’m sure you know all that. You also must know that you don’t have to justify your work – not even to yourself.”

Excerpted from a letter from Sol Lewitt to Eva Hesse.

From Keri Smith.

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Excerpt from Keri Smith’s How to be an Explorer of the World. More from don’t touch my moleskine. Excerpt from Keri Smith’s How to be an Explorer of the World. More from don’t touch my moleskine.

Excerpt from Keri Smith’s How to be an Explorer of the World.

More from don’t touch my moleskine.

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Truth, well put.

“Tom Robbins says you can’t manufacture creativity or wonderment, but you can pull yourself out of context so dramatically that you gawk in amazement at the ubiquitous everyday wonders you’re culturally conditioned to ignore. I think this is key: To get new ideas we need to see the world with new eyes–we need to evoke a novel way of seeing things. For me that involves throwing myself into new situations. Some of the thinkers I respect the most have credited travel, walks in the park, and marijuana as creativity catalysts. Really, it’s anything that triggers free association and the right conceptual collision. We need disruption of the profane so that we can engage with the sacred and creative.”

- Jason Silva

from PSFK.
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Pure poetry.

“I stretched my arms towards the sky like blades of tall grass
The sun beat between my shoulders like carnival drums
I sat still in hopes that it would help my wings grow
So then I would really be fly.
And then she arrived
Like day break inside a railway tunnel
Like the new moon, like a diamond in the mines
Like high noon to a drunkard, sudden
She made my heart beat in a now-now time signature
Her skinny canvas for ultarviolet brushstrokes
She was the sun’s painting
She was a deep cognac color
Her eyes sparkled like lights along the new city
Her lips pursed as if her breath was too sweet
And full for her mouth to hold.
I said,”You are the beautiful distress of mathematics.”
I said,”For you, I would peel open the clouds like new fruit.”
And give you lightning and thunder as dowry
I would make the sky shed all of its stars like rain
And I would clasp the constellations across your waist
And I would make the heavens your cape
And they would be pleased to cover you
They would be pleased to cover you
May I please, cover you. Please.”

- Mos Def


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As a former 365 blogger, I love this. Congrats to Greg Tung for completing 365 days of doing something that scares him, every day. 

http://www.scareyourselfeveryday.com

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“We usually think of it as novels or sagas or folk tales or, at the least, as anecdotes. We make narratives many times a day, everyday of our lives. We speak of a gift for telling stories.” 

- H.Porter Abbott

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“To think different, to think differently, is to create life.  It is the ultimate joyful act — to read critically is to perform Whitman’s great line: urge and urge and urge/always the procreant urge of the world.”

-The Joy of Thinking (Differently) from the Thoughtcatalog.


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“A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions….A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the non-space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.”

- A description of cyberspace from Neuromancer, 1984

Reads like sweet poetry.

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“Much like life in the alps with valleys and peaks, life shouldn’t be too comfortable as you will never appreciate your arrival onto a peak. From a peak, one can look down upon life with satisfaction and primitive enjoyment to be alive, be satisfied to have the privilege of viewing down upon the beauty of the world.”

- paraphrased Nietzsche

From Flow, Interaction Design and Contemporary Boredom.

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