Josef Sudek & H. Wadsworth Longfellow

Photo by Josef Sudek, "From the window of my Atelier",
series from 1940 to 1954



Every heart has its secret sorrows
which the world knows not,
and oftentimes we call a man
cold,
when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Cristina De Middel & Kierkegaard

Photo by Cristina De Middel, The Afronauts

Life 

can only be understood backwards; 

but it must be lived forwards.

Kierkegaard

www.lademiddel.com

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

Arno Rafael Minkinnen & Lord Byron

Photo by Arno Rafael Minkinnen, 2002, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wright, England




In secret we met,
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?

With silence and tears.

George Gordon Byron


www.arno-rafael-minkinnen.com

Madoz Chema & Robert Frost

Photo by Madoz Chema, Untitled, 2001




Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made
all the difference.

Robert Frost

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

Robert Parkeharrison & H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Photo by Robert Parkeharrison, Pollution



Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed
by the things that you didn't
than by ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.
(P.S. I Love You)


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