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"Although the wind
blows terribly here,
the moonlight also leaks
between the roof planks
of this ruined house"
Izumi Shikibu
© Jane Hirshfield
Carl Fredrik Hill, 1849-1911
"Les falaises", 1876, oil on canvas
"Just once I knew what life was for.
In Boston, quite suddenly, I understood;
walked there along the Charles River,
watched the lights copying themselves,
all neoned and strobe-hearted, opening
their mouths as wide as opera singers..."
Anne Sexton
photo:Rcm
"Sure it failed my little fire
But it’s bright the dying spark
Go tell the young messiah
What happens to the heart"
Leonard Cohen, 2016
photo: Adam Cohen with his father Leonard
©PR
I speak out of the deep of night
out of the deep of darkness
and out of the deep of night I speak.
if you come to my house, friend
bring me a lamp and a window I can look through
at the crowd in the happy alley.
Forugh Farrokhzad, 1934-1967
"My lady can sleep
Upon a handkerchief
Or if it be Fall
Upon a fallen leaf.
I have seen the hunters
kneel before her hem
Even in her sleep
She turns away from them.
The only gift they offer
Is their abiding grief
I pull out my pockets
For a handkerchief or leaf"
Leonard Cohen
"Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me"
Marc Chagall, 1887-1985
"La saison d'été", 1960
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
Albert Schweitzer