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

Jean Painlevé & Dejan Stojanovic

Photo by Jean Painlevé, Hippocampe femelle, 1931 

 I am the shore and the ocean, 

awaiting myself on both sides.

Dejan Stojanovic

Sebastião Salgado & Santosh Kalwar

Photo by Sebastiao Salgado, Aqua Mater 

 

Always be like water. 

Floats in the times of pain

 or dance

like waves 

along the wind

 which touches its surface.

Santosh Kalwar 

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

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

Siausiau Suzuki & John Keats "Bright Star"

Photo by Siausiau Suzuki



"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors
No yet still stedfast, still unchangeble,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever - or else swoon to death".

John Keats



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