The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Art · Reflection
“The two of us with a very strong, peaceful expression, hand in hand, on the edge within a semicircle sea, lit be Bengal fire, water-tower, mountains, lightning and moon.” Oskar Kokoschka The Bride of the Wind, 1914
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Art · Reflection
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1875) James Abbott McNeill Whistler Whistler was interested in the relationship between music and paintings and often called his paintings nocturnes, symphonies, or harmonies.
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Art · Reflection
I lock my door upon myself by Fernand Khnopff, 1891
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Art · Reflection
“From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hel
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Poetry · Reflection
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these” Emily Dickinson (American Poe
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Art · Reflection
We all dance our own life, while some of us just like to watch… The dance of life by Edvard Munch
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Art · Reflection
“Apollo and the Muses” “Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.” Wes Nisker
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Poetry · Essay
The Future And I know full well you won’t be there. You won’t be in the street, in the hum that buzzes from the arc lamps at night, nor in the gesture of selecting from the menu, nor in the smile that lightens people packed into the subway, nor in the borrowed books, nor in
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Literature · Reflection
“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream” Virginia Woolf
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Literature · Reflection
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. Chaim Potok
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Literature · Reflection
“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in
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Literature · Reflection
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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