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Ilya B Shambat

['Member']Joined: February 24, 2019 at 01:45Last active: July 19, 2019 at 22:3770 discussions124 comments
Location: Pimlico

Bio

Russian-born Australia-resident American poet and philosopher.

Favourite Philosopher

Schiller, Lao Tsu, Ayn Rand

Favourite Quotations

"We have been given a world that only our folly prevents from being a paradise." - Oscar Wilde

Discussions (70)

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In: Get Creative!  — view comment
He said that you were playing games But I and you both know better: Through passion heart on life makes claim And makes false manacles to shatter He s...
July 12, 2019 at 00:55
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
In intimacy there exists a line That can't be crossed by passion or love's art - In awful silence lips melt into one And out of love to pieces bursts ...
July 09, 2019 at 01:02
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
The golden tree, The Tree of Life - Into its shadow I will dive And feast upon the blessed fruit Then dig until the very root. Inside the root I'll fi...
July 07, 2019 at 03:57
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
By the edge, near the precipice, at the very limit, I am beating at my horses with my arm, a whiplash in it. I'm not getting enough air - drinking win...
July 06, 2019 at 00:41
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
"I Died for Beauty" - Emily Dickinson I died for beauty – twas my choice To end my life this way; In every note of her voice Was universe at play: Twa...
July 05, 2019 at 01:04
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Elderberry fills the whole garden! Elderberry is green, green, Greener, than mold on the vat! Greener, than summer at the start! Elderberry - till the...
July 04, 2019 at 00:43
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
INTRODUCTION The crying queen of Africa! How long had it been thus? You, that were queen of Africa, With face down into dust! To come from rags, to ex...
July 03, 2019 at 03:36
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Tired of seeing the ground? Look at the sky of blue. Spin me, spin me around, Make my emotions true Make them soft and tender Beat them into a pulp Pu...
July 02, 2019 at 01:56
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Champagne in a lily! Champagne in a lily! With health and with wisdom it sparkles and shines! A shot of Mignon with one of Escamillio Champagne in a l...
June 30, 2019 at 01:47
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
To embrace you with blue horizon And enfold you with starry night Means to see through the man's devising And by Passion to set it right. That Life sh...
June 29, 2019 at 00:26
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Tonight I will dream the strangest dreams. I will say not "I am" but "I am yours" For otherwise the statement is merely axiomatic. Tonight I will drea...
June 28, 2019 at 01:03
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
1 In St. Petersburg again we come together, As though Sun inside there we interred As though for the first time and forever We pronounced the blessed,...
June 27, 2019 at 00:59
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
They say that love is blind, But my love for you isn't: My heart is with my mind, My soul is with my reason. I know why I love you, And it's completel...
June 25, 2019 at 01:07
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
I like it that you're burning not for me, I like it that it's not for you I'm burning And that the heavy sphere of Planet Earth Will underneath our fe...
June 23, 2019 at 01:53
In: Empiricism And Kant  — view comment
He definitely said that there was a difference between the phenomenal (the thing as they appear) and the noumenal (the things as they are). I show whe...
June 22, 2019 at 04:58
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
In the haunted house Dead are living and living are not-quite-dead And each day is a death of the soul. In the haunted house Air shatters against the ...
June 20, 2019 at 00:46
In: In Memory Of Roy Wagner  — view comment
Bitter Crank: This thread is about Roy Wagner. You fit in as the audience for the requiem.
June 19, 2019 at 04:12
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Sweetness and tenderness -- like sisters alike are your marks - The wasp and the bee suckle honey then flutter as one - Life ends, beach sand chills o...
June 18, 2019 at 01:03
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
A day in the life of Lilian Is by most standards good: She stands in her cot quite meekly Until it is time for food - With finger in side of her mouth...
June 09, 2019 at 18:58
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Hello my friend heat lightning! How beautiful you are! All of the sky alighting - Exploding shooting star! Illumined and transparent Bathing the sky l...
June 06, 2019 at 00:37
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
1 Equally with all others I want to serve you, Drying from jealousy My lips turned blue. Word does not slake A mouth dry from despair Without you I am...
June 04, 2019 at 02:22
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Rather than be a vandal and bandit, I'd like to apply to be antisemite, On their side, though laws are missing, Is support and fervor of millions of p...
June 03, 2019 at 01:06
In: Beauty And Its Abuses  — view comment
Where would you point the fingers?
June 02, 2019 at 03:58
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
When I am thinking deeply I see the world in brown: The colors mix completely And in each other drown Creating a commingling Expressing every view Thr...
June 02, 2019 at 03:32
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
1 A ghostlike scene is glimmering Weak choirs of shades remain With silk has draped Melpomene Her temple's windowpanes Frost crunches in the yard Blac...
May 30, 2019 at 00:38
In: Christian Environmentalism  — view comment
Amazing, this is the best pope in history.
May 28, 2019 at 05:58
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Like seaweed, like branches of willows Of Malmazonia are your limbs, Thus you did lie in sprays of sea foam And absent-mindedly transfixed Upon the sw...
May 28, 2019 at 00:35
In: France And America: Critic And Doer  — view comment
Canadians have their own idea, and I think it is a good one. They haven't had domestic terrorism, and generally the place is quite nice. I know a numb...
May 27, 2019 at 02:52
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Like liquid glass, waters of sea, Made of the tinted-bottle color, Was pouring softly, heavily - The appelation of this: summer. And ships, appearing ...
May 26, 2019 at 01:34
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
numinous luminosities! homes of the heart and mind! gentleness, generosity, genuineness in you hide! in Bodhi tree's embodiments battle the balms and ...
May 22, 2019 at 00:57
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Teasing and tempting and playing We loved like children, us both But somebody, hiding a smile, Set up the ungentle nets - And here we are at the harbo...
May 21, 2019 at 00:35
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Mene: Numbered. The number of my loves was few but each brought me to heaven. A gentle spirit with a beautiful mind and an elegant body, now a yoga te...
May 20, 2019 at 00:43
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
To what shall I compare you, my sweet love? How, having known you, can I face the crowd? You take my heart out with a velvet glove And then establish ...
May 17, 2019 at 23:13
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
I'm in the light, open to every eye - I do as I do often; like an icon I come up to a microphone; today It's more like I'm approaching a cannon. And I...
May 17, 2019 at 02:17
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
In the quiet valley where rocks do not stand in the way of the windstorm In such places that no one got there or will get again There joyfully lived a...
May 16, 2019 at 00:48
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
In intimacy there exists a line That can't be crossed by passion or love's art - In awful silence lips melt into one And out of love to pieces bursts ...
May 14, 2019 at 00:57
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
The golden tree, The Tree of Life - Into its shadow I will dive And feast upon the blessed fruit Then dig until the very root. Inside the root I'll fi...
May 12, 2019 at 05:11
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Project the mind - it resonates with thunder; Reject the mind - around you it burns. Intrepid joy - impassioned restless wonder - The heart-suffused a...
May 11, 2019 at 00:34
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
The glorious enchanted she-spider Is weaving her web again The lights of the street lamps are wider And branches are drenched with rain The light of t...
May 10, 2019 at 00:34
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnfsynjSnYA Lift your lovely eyes up to Christmas heavens, Conjure up the substance of your dreams, Before you in my l...
May 09, 2019 at 00:43
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
They say that love is blind, But my love for you isn't: My heart is with my mind, My soul is with my reason. I know why I love you, And it's completel...
May 08, 2019 at 00:33
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGqexvEtrBo How ravishing the Russian evenings are Love, and champagne, and sunsets over alleys And walks and the amus...
May 06, 2019 at 23:38
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Softly and sweetly Melanie Is sleeping in the camping tent She looks delightful, peaceful, free - What more can anyone demand? Her hair soft grass, he...
May 06, 2019 at 00:46
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
When I am thinking deeply I see the world in brown: The colors mix completely And in each other drown Creating a commingling Expressing every view Thr...
May 05, 2019 at 05:58
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Thank you.
May 03, 2019 at 00:51
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
I'll find my love in the ocean Mermaid-like, she will call Her tenderness and devotion Nurturing one and all Over the crashing billows Ethereal, she w...
May 03, 2019 at 00:36
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
We made a bubble of our minds - Connected over the distance - Our nerves together intertwined And in their center, Our Existence - Heartbeat to heartb...
May 02, 2019 at 00:43
In: Valued And Non-Valued Dualities  — view comment
It can work for other people beside myself.
April 30, 2019 at 07:59
In: Valued And Non-Valued Dualities  — view comment
My method is synergy within the framework of check and balance. At the bottom level the two sides check each other's destructive capacities by affirmi...
April 30, 2019 at 05:01
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
1. Hagia Sofia -- here to stop and stare The Lord has ordered people and the tsars! Your dome, as an eyewitness once described it, As if by chains is ...
April 28, 2019 at 02:26
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