Yamamoto Masao & Pablo Neruda

Photo by Yamamoto Masao, from the series Nakazora, 2001




As if you were on fire from within.
The moon
lives
 in the lining of your skin.

Pablo Neruda

Lucien Clergue & Walt Whitman

Caco at Montparnasse, photo by Lucien Clergue, Paris, 1975




Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born,
and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.


Walt Whitman,
Laves of Grass

Rafal Karzc & Sylvia Plath

Photo by Rafal Karzc, Exit 4



I took a deep breathe
and listened to the old brag of my heart.
I am, I am, I am.

Sylvia Plath,
The Bell Jar

Lucien Clergue & Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Photo by Lucien Clergue, Nu de la foret



All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Bill Jacobson & George Santayana

Photo by Bill Jacobson, Piece (series)



There is no cure for birth and death
save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana 

Mario Cravo Neto & Marcel Achard

Photo by Mario Cravo Neto, Voodoo Child, 1992



Our nature consists in motion,
complete rest is death.
Marcel Achard 

Herb Ritts & "Pagliacci" by R. Leoncavallo

Vladimir, photo by Herb Ritts, 1990

"Ridi Pagliaccio sul tuo cuore infranto! 

Ridi del duol che t'avvelena il cor!"

From the Opera "Pagliacci" by Ruggero Leoncavallo: "Vesti la Giubba".