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

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

Fokos David & Virginia Woolf

Photo by Fokos David, Edgartown lighthouse,  Massachussets, 2012

Yes,

 she thought,

 laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, 

I have had my vision.

Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse 

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

Hooper Chip & P. Coelho

Photo by Chip Hooper, Giant's Tooth, Tasman Sea, 2003




Life
 always waits
 for some crisis to occur
before revealing
 itself at its
most
brilliant.

Paulo Coelho
Eleven Minutes


www.chiphooper.com

Sergio Larrain & William Faulkner

Photo by Sergio Larrain




We must be free
 not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.

William Faulkner 

Cig Harvey & James Baldwin

Photo by Cig Harvey, Flood Tide, Self Portrait, 2005

Not everything that is faced 

can be changed, 

but nothing can be 

changed 

until

 it is faced.

James Baldwin