Literature · Reflection
COLETTE ~ ON MEMORIES
“It is the image in the mind that links us to our lost treasures; but it is the loss that shapes the image, gathers the flowers, weaves the garland.” ― Colette, My Mother’s House & Sido
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Art · Reflection
SILENT WOOD ~ POEM BY ELIZABETH SIDDAL
O silent wood, I enter thee With a heart so full of misery For all the voices from the trees And the ferns that cling about my knees. In thy darkest shadow let me sit When the grey owls about thee flit; There will I ask of thee a boon, That I may not faint
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Literature · Reflection
JORGE LUIS BORGES ~ PARADISE
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Jorge Luis Borges
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ANDRE GIDE ~ YOUR INNER SELF
” Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself – and thus make yourself indispensable.” Andre Gide
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Art · Reflection
GIORGIO DE CHIRICO ~ THE MYSTERY OF OUR MINDS
“Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.” Giorgio de Chirico Painting is by Giorgio de Chirico, Melancolia, 1912
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Art · Reflection
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE ~ HAPPY VALENTINES DAY
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY ♥ The Kiss Konstantin Somov – 1914
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Literature · Reflection
EMILY BRONTE ~ VARIOUS FEELINGS OF LOVE
“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.” ―
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Poetry · Reflection
MIRAGE ~ POEM BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
The hope I dreamed of was a dream, Was but a dream; and now I wake Exceeding comfortless, and worn, and old, For a dream’s sake. I hang my harp upon a tree, A weeping willow in a lake; I hang my silenced harp there, wrung and snapt For a dream’s sake. Lie still, lie
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Reflections · Reflection
HENRI MATISSE ~ BEING POSITIVE
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” Henri Matisse Bouquet (Vase with Two Handles). 1907.
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EDOUARD VUILLARD ~ THE MUSIC OF PAINTING
“Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting” Edouard
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HENRY MILLER ~ THE LONELY SOUL
“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable” ― Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
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Art · Reflection
GIORGIO MORANDI ~ CONSCIOUSNESS, UNCONSCIOUSNESS…
I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that… the objective world… never really exists as we see and understand it… has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it. Giorgio Morandi (1890 – 1964) G
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