#beth levin

Paul Cezanne 'Trees by the Water' :: thanks to Beth Levin ::@op109

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Lavinia Capogna

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'Poetry is something that walks the streets, that moves, that passes by us. All things have their mystery and poetry is the mystery of all things.'

Federico García Lorca

Beth Levin :: @op109 :: Winslow Homer, "Breaking Storm, Coast of Maine"

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“Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.”

― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek

Joan Eardley - Ripening Barley, 1960-62, gouache, 43 x 35.5 cm (scottish-gallery)

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'Like barley bending In low fields by the sea, Singing in hard wind Ceaselessly; Like barley bending And rising again, So would I, unbroken, Rise from pain; So would I softly, Day long, night long, Change my sorrow Into song.'

– Sara Teasdale, “Like Barley Bending”

'I don’t often visit memory And it always surprises me. When I descend with a lamp to the cellar, It seems to me that a landslide Rumbles again on the narrow stairs. The lamp smokes, I can’t turn back And I know that I am advancing on the enemy.'

PAUL KLEE "Landscape with Yellow Birds", 1923.

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"One Heart"

'Look at the birds. Even flying is born out of nothing. The first sky is inside you, open at either end of day. The work of wings was always freedom, fastening one heart to every falling thing.'

LI - YOUNG LEE

reuven dattner, morning coffee

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Dylan O'Sullivan "Taking it easy feels empty unless you've done something hard, the vitality of life is found in the contrasts, and by heightening the contrasts you deepen life."

Masao Yamamoto via Coleurs

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"That the world is, is the mystical."

- Ludwig Wittgenstein