June 2010
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On A Journey
Don’t be downcast, soon the night will come, When we can see the cool moon laughing in secret Over the faint countryside, And we rest, hand in hand. Don’t be downcast, the time will soon come When we can have rest. Our small crosses will stand On the bright edge of the road together, And rain fall, and snow fall, And the winds come and go.
Hermann Hesse
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I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the...
– Edvard Munch - On the experience which inspired his famous painting, The Scream, in an entry in his Diary (22 January 1892)
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All The Words In All The World
All the flowers cannot weave A garland worthy of your hair, Not a bird in the four winds Can sing of you that is so fair. Only the spheres can sing of you; Some planet in celestial space, Hallowed and lonely in the dawn, Shall sing the poem of your face.
Richard Le Gallienne
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mermaidcomplex asked: I'm loving all your posts of the studies done by Owen Davis of Edward Hopper's art!
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He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom’s self is made to be a...
– Alexis de Tocqueville - Old Regime (1856)
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Where The Mind Is Without Fear
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Where the mind is led forward...
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Having no destination, I am never lost.
– Ikkyū
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Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!
– Vladimir Nabokov - Look at the Harlequins! (1974)
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Look: the sea is all around. We are destined to sail forever. To live forever.
– Russian Ark (Directed by Alexander Sokurov)
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Risk
And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anaïs Nin
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