In time of daffodils

Myself and My Person By Anna Swir (Translated by Czeslaw Milosz)

Rene Magritte

"Nothing is confused, except the mind."

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Duane Michals - Rene Magritte in Bowler Hat (Multiple Exposure), 1965

Auden (from 9.1.1939)

Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

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Mervyn Peake (extract from 'Is There no Love Can Link Us?')

Is there no love can link us – I and they?
Only this hectic moment? This fierce instant
Striking now
Its universal, its uneven blow?

There is no other link. Only this sliding
Second we share: this desperate edge of now.

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That's very sweet of you, Leticia x

These Black Dog Days
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G.K. Chesterton

“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”

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T. S. Eliot - from East Coker (Four Quartets)

"...old stones that cannot be deciphered."

Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass

“Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.”

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Henry Miller - Black Spring (page 14)

"...everything moves on shifting levels - our thoughts, our dreams, our actions, our whole life."

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Jorge Luis Borges - The Moon (for Maria Kodama)

There is such loneliness in that gold.
The moon of the nights is not the moon
Whom the first Adam saw. The long centuries
Of human vigil have filled her
With ancient lament. Look at her. She is your mirror.

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John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”

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Fabulous!

George Carlin

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”

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Iris Murdoch (from The Message to the Planet).

"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."

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Picasso - Guernica, 1937

Robert Walser
From ‘Too Philosophical ‘ (translated by Daniele Pantano)

How ghostly my life
in its fall and rise.
Always I see myself waving to myself,
floating away from the one waving.

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For today's #BlueSkyArtShow - #Texture

Textured seascape (The Bay of Biscay)

The late & great Raymond Carver:

"My bowl is empty. But it's my bowl, you see, and I love it."

Haiku by Billy Collins

Moon in the window
the same as it was before
there was a window.

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Leibniz

“…every feeling is the perception of a truth...”

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Alexander Calder

“My circles aren’t perfect – and I don’t want them to be”

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Paul Simon - America

“So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
"Kathy, I'm lost", I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why”

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Lenka Clayton

'Half a Dozen Eggs, Quarter of a Dozen Raisins' (2018)

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Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon'...”

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from 'Not Dawdling' by James Broughton

"At every crossroad
be prepared to bump into wonder."

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Bob and Joan were standing in front of a poster designed by Seymour Chwast for Booth’s Gin with Joan casually blocking the actual product image to highlight the message…

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Daniel Kramer’s photograph of Bob Dylan & Joan Baez at Newark Airport, 1964.

Protest Against the Rising Tide of Conformity

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Jean Rhys

"All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.”

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What We Want - Linda Pastan

"We don't remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us."

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