Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
Interpretation
The quote evokes a vivid image of a sunset and the delicate beauty of nature.
This quote by Roberto Bolano captures the serene and ephemeral beauty of a sunset, highlighting the transition from day to night. The bright colors symbolize hope and vibrancy, while the giant butterflies represent fleeting moments of joy and beauty that contrast with the inevitable approach of darkness, suggesting a deeper reflection on life's temporary pleasures.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of appreciating nature, this quote beautifully illustrates the fleeting moments we often overlook.
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
Being alone makes us stronger. Thatβs the honest truth. But itβs cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.
I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.
I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of
I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.
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