The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
Poetry · Reflection
The silent friendliness of the moon (misquoting Virgil) accompanies you since that one night or evening lost in time now, on which your restless eyes first deciphered her forever in a garden or patio turned to dust. Forever? I know someone, someday will be able to tell you truthf
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Literature · Reflection
“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.” Julio Cortazar – Around the Day in Eighty WorLds
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Art · Reflection
Franz van stuck (February 24, 1863 – August 30, 1928) was a German symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. This painting is part of a tryptich Air, water and Fire. This part is called Water and Fire, 1913.
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Literature · Reflection
“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality” 1956 Romain Gary, 1914 -1980
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Literature · Reflection
“Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.” Octavio Paz The labyrinth of Solitude Mexican writer 1914-1998 Nobel
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Literature · Reflection
“Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficently over others” (Eugenie Grandet) Honore de Balzac
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Art · Reflection
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. ” Plato
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Art · Reflection
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” Benjamin Britten
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Art · Reflection
“The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness” Carl Gustav Jung
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Literature · Reflection
“He asked himself a question I still would like answered… ‘How should a good man live; what ought he to do?’ Dangling Man~ Saul Bellow Published in 1944, Dangling Man reflected contemporary intellectual preoccupations with the nature of freedom. Source 1001 books
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Literature · Reflection
“Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only … between different parts of a person’s mind.” Rebecca West, “The Art of Skepticism,” 1952
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Art · Reflection
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus, Greek Philosopher (341-270 AD)
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