So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss,
Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,
Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this,
And let our selves benight our happiest day.
Images: © Francis A Willey
Text: John Donne quotes (English poet, 1572-1631)
Categories: photography, word
Tagged: ghost, John Donne, lamenting, photography, Soul, woman, © Francis A Willey
Broke to every known mischance, lifted over all
By the light sane joy of life, the buckler of the Gaul,
Furious in luxury, merciless in toil,
Terrible with strength that draws from her tireless soil;
Strictest judge of her own worth, gentlest of man’s mind,
First to follow Truth and last to leave old Truths behind-
France beloved of every soul [...]
Categories: photography, word
Tagged: France, French, Goran Popovic, Life, light, Rudyard Kipling, Soul, street, truth, worth
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who [...]
Categories: photography, word
Tagged: again, Arena, belong, Cécilia Jauniau, count, credit, critic, deed, error, FACE, faces, great, man, portrait, Soul, strive, strong, Theodore Roosevelt, woman
A person has one body,
Singleton, all on its own,
The soul has had more than enough
Of being cooped up inside
A casing with ears and eyes
The size of a five-penny piece
And skin – just scar after scar -
Covering a structure of bone.
Out through the cornea it flies
Into the bow of the sky,
On to an icy spoke,
To a [...]
Categories: contemporary art, exhibition, word
Tagged: Alexandra Eldridge, Arseny Tarkovsky, being, Bruno Munari, Chopped Steak II 2007 - 2009, dance, dody, dream, Eurydice, hope, inspiration, riddle, scar, sinful, solution, Soul, world
Empty spaces – what are we living for?
Abandoned places – I guess we know the score…
On and on!
Does anybody know what we are looking for?
Another hero – another mindless crime.
Behind the curtain, in the pantomime.
Hold the line!
Does anybody want to take it anymore?
The Show must go on!
The Show must go on! Yeah!
Inside my heart is [...]
Categories: music, photography, word
Tagged: anybody, breaking, butterflies, chance, dark, dawn, fly, Freddie Mercury, friends, go, grin, grow, guess, heart, line, living, looking, lyrics, make up, Markus Pritzi, must, on, painted, places, queen, score, show, smile, Soul, wings
As a twig trembles, which a bird
Lights on to sing, then leaves unbent,
So is my memory thrilled and stirred;
I only know she came and went.
As clasps some lake, by gusts unriven,
The blue dome’s measureless content,
So my soul held that moment’s heaven;
I only know she came and went.
As, at one bound, our swift spring heaps
The orchards [...]
Categories: photography, poem
Tagged: Angel, come, Danniel, gaze, Heaven, James Russell Lowell, mask, nude, She Came and Went, Soul, Stefania Bonatelli, woman
Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him
In soul and aspect as in age; years steal
Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb;
And life’s enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
Image: © Jonathan Monk, 06 – “Neon Piece,” 2007. Yellow neon mounted on Plexiglas 79 x 6 x 3”
Text: Lord Byron (1788 – 1824), [...]
Categories: contemporary art, word
Tagged: age, alter, before, change, Childe Harold, fire, Jonathan Monk, Life, light, Lord Byron, mind, Neon, Soul, then, time, until, years
Sometimes at night I walk to the beach and lie on my back near the sea to dream good things about my life. I’m a vagabond soul filled with Internet folklore and the thought of your kiss shines like the stars amidst dark moments.
During the day, I hunt for food and fight my enemies with [...]
Tagged: day, dream, good, Graeme Mitchell, Life, Lucius Bod, man, moment, short story, Smoke Ring, smoking, Soul, things, tobacco
What’s female beauty, but an air divine,
Through which the mind’s all-gentle graces shine!
They, like the Sun, irradiate all between;
The body charms, because the soul is seen.
Image: Valentino Haute Couture
Text: From the Love of Fame by Edward Young (1681 – 1765)
Tagged: Beauty, body, couture, divine, Edward Young, fashion, female, haute couture, shine, Soul, Valentino
The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the Music breathing from her face,
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,
And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul!
Image: © Rodney Smith
Text: From the Bride of Abydos by Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Categories: photography, word
Tagged: body, breath, Bride of Abydos, FACE, female, Grace, Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, Lord Byron, nude, photography, purity, Rodney Smith, Soul, woman
