The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Literature · Reflection
“I’ve never been lonely. I’ve been in a room — I’ve felt suicidal. I’ve been depressed. I’ve felt awful — awful beyond all — but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me…or that any number of people could enter that room. In other wo
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Literature · Reflection
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. “ ~Victor Hugo
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Art · Reflection
“It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.” Johann Sebastian Bach German composer and musician (1685-1750)
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Literature · Reflection
“I don’t die – I don’t fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I’m not there. You are quite right; life to me is just a spectacle…” E.M. Forster (1879-1905)
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Literature · Reflection
“The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him – which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows” Andre Breton André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Su
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Art · Reflection
“A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there’s more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It’s why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of biso
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Art · Reflection
“My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule.” — Jame
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Art · Reflection
“So I said to myself-I’ll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.” Georgia O’Keeffe on Painting
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“So I said to myself-I’ll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.” Georgia O’Keeffe on Painting
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Poetry · Reflection
DUSK I feel my heart melting in the mildness like candles my veins are slow oil and not wine, and I feel my life fleeing hushed and gentle like the gazelle. Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 – January 10, 1957 / Vicuna / Chile)
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Literature · Reflection
“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?” Philip Roth
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Poetry · Reflection
“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.” ~Stephen Mallarme
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