Ursula K. Le Guin (from Hymn to Time)

Time is being and being
time, it is all one thing,
the shining, the seeing,
the dark abounding.

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'Black Spray' (1956) - Alexander Calder - at The Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon - Portugal

"To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry."

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Photo: 2016

Jorge Luis Borges

"Scattered through the ordinary world there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth"

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From Leonard Cohen’s acceptance speech for the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in 2011:

For today's #BlueSkyArtShow - #Background Boogie

"We like to Boogie on a Saturday night"

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Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti on his birthday today.

"The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it."

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Milan Kundera (Immortality)

“The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.”

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Bob Kaufman - from Jail Poems (Written in San Francisco City Prison, Cell 3, 1959)

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I sit here writing, not daring to stop,
For fear of seeing what's outside my head.

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Homage by Leopoldo Maler, 1974  

This work has a great deal of personal meaning for Maler. His uncle, David Kraiselburd, an Argentinian journalist, was killed for the inflammatory content of his essays. The old Underwood typewriter is of a similar style to that his uncle used during his career.

Homage by Leopoldo Maler, 1974.   Hess Collection, Napa
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For today's #BlueSkyArtShow - #Horizonal

Jane Hirshfield

"Today, my hope is vertical. Tomorrow it will be horizontal. The next day, cloudy."

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Rene Magritte

"Nothing is confused, except the mind."

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Duane Michals - Rene Magritte in Bowler Hat (Multiple Exposure), 1965

Mervyn Peake (extract from 'Is There no Love Can Link Us?')

Is there no love can link us – I and they?
Only this hectic moment? This fierce instant
Striking now
Its universal, its uneven blow?

There is no other link. Only this sliding
Second we share: this desperate edge of now.

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That's very sweet of you, Leticia x

These Black Dog Days
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G.K. Chesterton

“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”

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T. S. Eliot - from East Coker (Four Quartets)

"...old stones that cannot be deciphered."

Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass

“Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.”

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Henry Miller - Black Spring (page 14)

"...everything moves on shifting levels - our thoughts, our dreams, our actions, our whole life."

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Jorge Luis Borges - The Moon (for Maria Kodama)

There is such loneliness in that gold.
The moon of the nights is not the moon
Whom the first Adam saw. The long centuries
Of human vigil have filled her
With ancient lament. Look at her. She is your mirror.

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John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”

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Fabulous!

George Carlin

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”

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Iris Murdoch (from The Message to the Planet).

"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."

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Picasso - Guernica, 1937

Robert Walser
From ‘Too Philosophical ‘ (translated by Daniele Pantano)

How ghostly my life
in its fall and rise.
Always I see myself waving to myself,
floating away from the one waving.

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For today's #BlueSkyArtShow - #Texture

Textured seascape (The Bay of Biscay)

The late & great Raymond Carver:

"My bowl is empty. But it's my bowl, you see, and I love it."

Haiku by Billy Collins

Moon in the window
the same as it was before
there was a window.

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Leibniz

“…every feeling is the perception of a truth...”

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