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 

 

Petecia Le Fawnhawk & Italo Calvino

Photo by Lefawnhawk , Modern Desert Magic




The ideal place for me
 is the one
 in which
 it is most natural
 to live
 as a foreigner.


Italo Calvino
The uses of literature

Alex Phénix & Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Photo by Alex Phénix, Antik, autoportrait of the artist, 2020



A woman
must be able to stand in the face of power,
because ultimately
some part of that power
will become
hers.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Women who run with the wolves

Thanks to the artist Alex Phénix
Instagram account: phenixthecat 

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

Herb Ritts & R.T. Bennet

Photo by Herb Ritts, Male nude, 1985



Accept yourself,
love yourself,
and keep moving forward.
If you want to fly,
you have to give up what weights you down.

Roy T. Bennet
The light in the heart