Italo Calvino

Italo, I have been sewing my soul on your pockethole.
I have really been enjoying your presence lately.
Come by more often, please. The classroom is soon to be your second home.

I must say our teacher has taste. A specific taste bud.
The tongue is sweet. Top dollar elegance.
I can appreciate a righteous tongue.

Italo even had films done by him. You know you have to be fabulous to gain such a status.
He also won a Nobel Prize for Literature. I salute you.
 One of his best works : ''If on a winter's night a traveler'' (wrote in 1979).....
The content is playful and intriguing. It is what some would call ''confusing'', but I enjoy a few question marks popping up here and there. Makes me think.
Thank you for such bliss, Calvino. A lot of imagery seeps through your work, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Set me free because I'm not running.

The Discovery of Rilke....

Ever since I started to study Rainer Maria Rilke in school, I couldn't put him down.
I don't know if it's because of his addicting ideologies.
Or because I see a lot of myself in him and his thought processes.
He exposed what he believed was the truth, and spoke just that.
He was honest, in a world where the truth has now become a scandal...
that's all people were really searching for.

I collected my favourite Rilke quotes :

''A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.''
''I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.''
''Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.''
''Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.''
 ''The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.''