After a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door. Wallace Stevens, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #Writing #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #StreetPhotography #Milkman #Masculinity #Gender #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

My heart is low, my heart is so low, as only a woman's heart can be. As only a woman's, as only a woman's, as only a woman's heart can know. Eleanor McEvoy, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpéirGhorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

It's hard to believe that the fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain, but you know what? It is. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, 21st century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpéirGhorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Awake! Approach the great and learn. Like the sharp edge of a razor is that path, so the wise say— hard to tread and difficult to cross. Upanishads, 700-300 BCE #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Who will buy my sweet red roses? Two blooms for a penny. Who will buy this wonderful morning? Such a sky you never did see! Oliver, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #India #RamanaMaharshi #StreetPhotography #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

My awareness is united and focused in the Real. Caste, order, and scripture are gone; I am the Supreme Brahman beyond all attributes. Avudai Akkal, 18th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #RamanaMaharshi #StreetPhotography #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth, then God will once again become a child on earth. Angelus Silesius, 17th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #Christmas #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Love Devotion Feeling Emotion Don't be afraid to be weak Don't be too proud to be strong Look into your Heart my friend The return to your Self The return to innocence Enigma, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone I can see obstacles in my way Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind It's gonna be a bright, bright, bright sun-shiny day Johnny Nash, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

To make the intellect rid of the sense ‘I am the body’, and fixing it securely in the Heart, this is the significance of witnessing the Beacon Light of Arunachala. Ramana Maharshi, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

We will, we will rock you, sing it We will, we will rock you, everybody We will, we will rock you, hmm We will, we will rock you Alright Queen, 20th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Should I stay or should I go now? If I go there will be trouble And if I stay it will be double So come on and let me know Should I stay or should I go? The Clash, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

As sure as night is dark and day is light I keep You on my mind both day and night And happiness I've known proves that it's right Because You're mine, I walk the line. Johnny Cash, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #ImageAndVerse #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗴, noun /𝘥𝘪ːˈ𝘣𝘳𝘪ː𝘧𝘪ŋ/ activity of asking somebody questions officially, in order to get information about the task that they have just completed Oxford Dictionary, 21st century #Photography #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Mary Oliver, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

When you go will you send back a letter from America? Take a look up the rail track from Miami to Canada ... The Proclaimers, 20th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #RamanaMaharshi #Ashram #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

come on come on let me into your temple come on come on I want into your temple come on come on let me into the temple come on come on I want into the temple Jane Siberry, 21st century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out, and to whom I was like to give offence ... He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbours.’ Robert Frost, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance. Guru Nanak, 16th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #Mystical #Sikh #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Look, there it stands, as if insentient. When it stilled my mind and drew me to itself and I came near, I saw that it was absolute stillness, O Arunachala! Ramana Maharshi, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #Stunday #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

In another life I would make you stay So I don't have to say You were the one that got away The o-o-o-o-o-one The o-o-o-o-o-one The one that got away Katy Perry, 21st century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Take me to the river, drop me in the water Dip me in the river, drop me in the water Washing me down, washing me down. Talking Heads, 20th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #Scape #WaterScape

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. Robert Frost, 20th century #Photography #Wisdom #Spirituality #Poetry #Prayer #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #India #Temple #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

But if you got to go It's all right But if you got to go, go now Or else you gotta stay all night Bob Dylan, 20th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Every old man I see Reminds me of my father When he had fallen in love with death One time when sheaves were gathered ... Patrick Kavanagh, 20th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #Ireland #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

No, you can't always get what you want You can't always get what you want You can't always get what you want But if you try sometime you'll find You get what you need Rolling Stones, 20th century #Photography #SpeirGorm #Stunday #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Everybody needs good neighbours. With a little understanding, You can find the perfect blend. That's when good neighbours become good friends. Barry Crocker, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #Caturday #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Ya douse an souse Ya rub and scrub Ya sputter and splash all over the tub You may be cold and wet when you're done But ya gotta admit it's good clean fun Snow White, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses It's the home of police who kill blacks boys on mopeds ... Sinéad O'Connor, 21st century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #UrbanGaze #ArtChallenges #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Magnified, sanctified Be the holy name Vilified, crucified In the human frame A million candles burning For the help that never came You want it darker Leonard Cohen, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Truly I tell you, he said, unless you turn and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew, 1st century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #Children #Wedding #Nepal #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause. Shakespeare, 16th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; for those whom thou think'st thou overthrow die not, poor Death ... John Donne, 17th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Long way from my home Van Morrison, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money Love like you’ll never get hurt You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watchin’ It’s gotta come from the heart Susanna Clarke, 20th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

And the band plays Waltzing Matilda And the men still answer the call But year after year their numbers get fewer Some day no one will march there at all The Dubliners, 20th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

House-builder, you are seen, you will not build a house again. All the rafters are broken, the ridgepole destroyed. The mind, gone to the Unconstructed, has reached the end of craving. Buddha, 5th century BCE #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Oh ... You better watch out, You better not cry You better not pout, I'm telling you why... Santa Claus is coming to town! Bruce Springsteen, 20th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #Christmas #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗵! 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗔𝘁 𝗢𝗻𝗰𝗲 ... #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #MysticPoetry #SpeirGorm #India #StreetPhotography #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

And at last I see the light And it's like the fog has lifted And at last I see the light And it's like the sky is new All at once everything looks different Now that I see You Tangled, 21st century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Suppose you cut a tall bamboo in two; make one half a woman, the other a man; rub them together till they kindle: tell me now, the fire that's born, is it male or female, O Ramanatha? Dasimayya, 11th century #Photography #Poetry #Mystic #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #India #EastCoastKin

Oh, who are the people in your neighborhood? In your neighborhood. Say, who are the people in your neighborhood? The people that you meet each day. Sesame Street, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

The conditions of a solitary bird are five: it flies to the highest point; it does not suffer for company, not even its own kind; it aims its beak to the skies; it does not have a definite colour; it sings very softly. St John of the Cross, 17th century #Photography #Birds #SpeirGorm #EastCoastKin

New eyes each year Find old books here, And new books, too, Old eyes renew; So youth and age Like ink and page In this house join, Minting new coin. Philip Larkin, 20th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #India #Ganesh #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Lord, thou art hard on mothers: We suffer in their coming and their going; And tho' I grudge them not, I weary, weary Of the long sorrow - And yet I have my joy ... Pádraig Pearse, 20th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #Cats #Caturday #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

I'll see your true colours Shining through I see your true colours And that's why I love you So don't be afraid to let them show Your true colours True colours are beautiful Like a rainbow Cyndi Lauper, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

History says don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme. Seamus Heaney, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #Ireland #Aras25 #Áras25 #ImageAndVerse #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

There are friendships that slip through the fingers like clear water, others like a rose that one absentmindedly sticks in one's lapel, but true friendships are limpets placed silently over the heart. Lorca, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through distances, that's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move. Rumi, 13th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

I met my love by the gas works wall Dreamed a dream by the old canal I kissed my girl by the factory wall Dirty old town Dirty old town Ewan MacColl, 20th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #Ireland #StreetPhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #ArtOfBlueSky #ImageAndVerse #EastCoastKin