~~The Wind does not require the Grass
To answer—

~Emily Dickinson




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~~I had not thought shadows could come in so many colors.

~Harriet Scott Chessman "Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Papers"



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~~Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

~Twyla Tharp


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~~Never let go of the fiery sadness called: desire.

~Matsuo Basho 1644 - 1694



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~~You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

~ Mark Twain



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~~portrait of a woman mourning the death of three possums fading beside the wet roadway

~~she listens to all their names being called in time with her heartbeats





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~~Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.

~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


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~~bamboo noir




~~I sit alone in the dark bamboo grove,
Playing the zither and whistling long.
In this deep wood no one would know -
Only the bright moon comes to shine




~ Wang Wei "Bamboo Adobe" (699-761 A.D.)


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~~In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.

~Wallace Stevens "Of the Surface of Things"



[33] Click to see the walker considering a cloud.

~~To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

~Karl Kraus "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"



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~~Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart;
The end lost in dream,
They float past our view,
We only watch their glad, early start.

~Amy Lowell "Petals"

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~~Night of the Rain-Falling Tree


~~The common rain had come again
Slanting and colorless, pale and anonymous,
Fainting falling in the first evening
Of the first perception of the actual fall,
The long and late light had slowly gathered up
A sooty wood of clouded sky, dim and distant more and more...

~Delmore Schwartz

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~~Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

~Edgar Allan Poe


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~~A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


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~~Sea Surface Full of Clouds
collage 8" x 11"
2002

...The sea-clouds whitened far below the calm
And moved, as blooms move, in the swimming green

...And sometimes the sea
Poured brilliant iris on the glistening blue.

...Then the sea
And heaven rolled as one and from the two
Came fresh transfigurings of freshest blue.


~ Wallace Stevens "Sea Surface Full of Clouds"

~~"I see nobody on the road," said Alice.

"I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone.

"To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too!
Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!"



~Lewis Carroll "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There"


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~~Either you
will go through
this door
or you will not go through.

...

The door itself
makes no promises.
It is only a door.





~Adrienne Rich "Prospective Immigrants Please Note"


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~~We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on her own light.

~Earl Nightingale











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~~the slow river
meets the tide,
a red swan lifts red wings

~H. D. "Leda"


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~~Come into my garden.
I would like my flowers to see you.





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~~Mountains Beyond Mountains
collage 9" x 12"
2003

~~Mountain, mountain, mountain,
marking time. Each
nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering
redefinition of
horizon.

~Denise Levertov “Into the Interior”

~~Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.


~Henri Cartier-Bresson





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~~eye candy apple




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~~The garden flew round with the angel,


The angel flew round with the clouds,


And the clouds flew round and the clouds flew round
And the clouds flew round with the clouds.


~~Wallace Stevens "The Pleasures of Merely Circulating"


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~~Beneath a Momentary Sky
collage 8" x 11"
c 2003

~~The look of things has a great power over me. Even now, I have to watch the rooks beating up against the wind, which is high, and still I say to myself instinctively "What’s the phrase for that?” and try to make more and more vivid the roughness of the air current and the tremor of the rooks wing slicing as if the air were full of ridges and ripples and roughnesses. They rise and sink, up and down as if the exercise rubbed and braced them like swimmers in rough water. But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fiber, or fanlike membrane in my species.

~~from the diary of Virginia Woolf, in the midst of a description of a summer afternoon spent in the country

~~There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.


~Leonard Cohen



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~~The earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth.We did not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. ~~Chief Seattle






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~~"People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
















~~Great Grandmother Molly Reads to Laurel Ann (1944)



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~~Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει (Panta Rhei)
~~Everything flows, nothing stands still



~~Heraclitus is known for illustrating the persistence of unity through change by the analogy of the river: "Upon those who step into the same river, different and ever different waters flow down."



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~~Alice, 1978
ink on paper
10" x 7"
Jani Isenhart

(hommage to Tenniel)







~~"Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!

"... I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying 'come up again, dear!' I shall only look up and say 'who am I, then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else."

~~Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.

~Rita Dove



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~~Häagen-Dazs Remnants

~ the dramatic image produced by the remains of Mayan Chocolate ice cream in the bottom of a bowl.




~~Supernova Remnants

~ the dramatic objects produced by the violent explosion of a massive star at the end of its life. Eventually, the remnants cool and collapse to form interstellar clouds from which new stars and planets can be formed. Perhaps the most famous and best-observed is this one - SN 1987A - the newly formed remnant of a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud.




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