Edmond Aman-Jean, Goddess of the Sea, c. 1893, Musee d’Orsay, Paris. By way of The Blue Lantern.
When
When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in the
cages of our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don’t know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down,
we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like
burnt paper.
~D. H. Lawrence
Thanks again to, Love Is A Place
Know Thyself More Deeply
Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depth,
love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock
molten, yet dense and permanent.
Go down to your deep old heart, and lose sight of yourself.
And lose sight of me, the me whom you turbulently loved.
Let us lose sight of ourselves, and break the mirrors.
For the fierce curve of our lives is moving again to the depth
out of sight, in the deep living.
~ D.H. Lawrence, from ‘Know Thyself More Deeply’
Thank you to, Love Is A Place
And so I urge you, go after experience rather than knowledge. On account of pride, knowledge may often deceive you, but this gentle, loving affection will not deceive you. Knowledge tends to breed conceit, but love builds. Knowledge is full of labor, but love, full of rest.
Yuan Li. By way of Online Browsing.
by Yuan Li. I could blog pretty much all of these. Amazing. Thanks again, Online Browsing.
by Yuan Li. Courtesy of Online Browsing.
“In traditional Chinese culture, the natural world around us is seen as an organic and dynamic entity, which may reveal to us an order metamorphic to the human endeavors. Through images captured, I would like to see that order explored. In the words of Szena Qian, who lived from 145 to 87 BC and whom many consider China’s greatest historian, there is a need “to explore the boundary between heaven and human being in order to understand the changes that took place in the past as well as those taking place in the present, and thus to be able to offer a unique interpretation (about them). I aspire to do the same photographically.”
—Yuan Li
With many thanks to Online Browsing AKA firsttimeuser around these parts.
Poetry
“When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.”
—Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting In Time
“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”
—Allen Ginsberg
“I think there’s a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there’s still time.”
—W. S. Merwin
By way of the deep blue river.
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Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
“This informal black-and-white portrait of Leonard Cohen shows him at age 30 on a visit to his hometown of Montreal, where the poet, novelist and songwriter comes “to renew his neurotic affiliations.” He reads his poetry to an enthusiastic crowd, strolls the streets of the city, relaxes in this three-dollar-a-night hotel room and even takes a bath.”
—NFB
At 8:40 Leonard Cohen says: “When I get up in the morning… my real concern is to discover whether I’m in a state of grace. And if I make that investigation, and I discover that I am not in a state of grace, I try to go [back] to bed. A state of grace is that kind of balance with which you ride the chaos that you find around you. It’s not a matter of resolving the chaos — because there’s something arrogant and warlike about putting the world in order — but having a kind of escape ski down over a hill, just going through the contours of the hill. Interviewer interjects: Oh, you have lost me! Irving Layton explains: What Cohen is trying to do right now is to preserve the self; that’s his real concern, and I think that is the concern for every poet: to preserve the self in a world that is rapidly steamrollering the selves out of existence, and establishing a uniform world.”
