Nusch Eluard & Rainer Maria Rilke

Dora Maar, 1935

 

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses

 who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. 

Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, 

something helpless that wants our love.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Irina Ionesco & Alan Moore

Eva, France, 1970



You
 wear a mask for so long,
you
 forget who you were beneath it.

Alan Moore
V for Vendetta

 

Henri Cartier-Bresson & E.E. Cummings

Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Livorno, Italy 1933

I will take the sun in my mouth

and leap into the ripe air

Alive

with closed eyes

to dash against the darkness 

 E. E. Cummings, Poems 1923-1954

Bill Brandt & Hafiz of Shiraz

Photo by Bill Brandt 1952 Perspective of nudes 


I wish
 I could
show you
when you are lonely or in darkness
the astonishing light
of your own being.

Hafiz of Shiraz 

Horst P. Horst & William Faulkner

Photo by Horst P. Horst for Vogue 1930



You
cannot swim
for new horizons
 until
 you have courage to lose sight
of the shore.


William Faulkner 

 

Giorgio Galimberti & Luis Sepulveda

Photo by Giorgio Galimberti, Camogli, 2018, Serie Nero Assoluto



I am the shadow of what we were,
and while there is light we exist.

A sombra do que somos
Luis Sepulveda

Gilbert Garcin & Rumi

Photo by Gilbert Garcin



Your task is not to seek for love
 but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself that
 you have built
 against it.

Rumi

Josef Sudek & Bertol Brecht

Photo by Josef Sudek



Weaknesses

You had none
I had one:
I loved.

Bertol Brecht

Ernst Haas & Voltaire

Photo by Ernst Haas, Misfits, 1960




All men are by nature free,
you have therefore
an undoubted liberty to depart
whenever you please,
but
will have many and great difficulties
to encounter
in passing the frontiers.

Voltaire
Candide

Julia Margaret Cameron & Lev Tolstoj

Photo by Julia Margaret Cameron,
The parting of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, 1874



I think...
if it is true that
there are
as many minds as there are heads,
then
there are
as many kinds of love
as there are hearts.

Lev Tolstoj
Anna Karenina