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G.K. Chesterton “The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.” .

Mark Strand (from Provisional Eternity) ...I never want it to end,” said the man. “What don’t you want to end?” said the woman. “This,” said the man, “this never wanting it to end.” .

William Scott - Sunday Morning, Wales (1945)

Russell Hoban "Explorers have to be ready to die lost." .

Remembering FAB Michael Horovitz On The Road Again (After Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac et all) Nothing left at all Not a goddamned thing right …full speed ahead! . For today’s #BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad

T. S. Eliot - from East Coker (Four Quartets) "...old stones that cannot be deciphered."

Mirosław Kijowicz Cages (1966)  youtu.be/Zi-2s4FJCl4 .

Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass “Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.” .

Henry Miller - Black Spring (page 14) "...everything moves on shifting levels - our thoughts, our dreams, our actions, our whole life." .

Elaine Pamphilon "Feel your way into a painting and your life is enriched." . The Yellow Bowl at the Gardener's Cottage

African Proverb A sandstorm passes; the stars remain. .

Jorge Luis Borges - The Moon (for Maria Kodama) There is such loneliness in that gold. The moon of the nights is not the moon Whom the first Adam saw. The long centuries Of human vigil have filled her With ancient lament. Look at her. She is your mirror. .

Paul Simon All lies and jest Still a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest... .

John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley: In Search of America “I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.” .

George Carlin “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” .

Iris Murdoch (from The Message to the Planet). "Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream." . Picasso - Guernica, 1937

Robert Walser From ‘Too Philosophical ‘ (translated by Daniele Pantano) How ghostly my life in its fall and rise. Always I see myself waving to myself, floating away from the one waving. .

For today's #BlueSkyArtShow - #Texture Textured seascape (The Bay of Biscay)

The late & great Raymond Carver: "My bowl is empty. But it's my bowl, you see, and I love it."

Haiku by Billy Collins Moon in the window the same as it was before there was a window. .

Next time you find yourself driving down ‘The Blues Highway’ be sure to tune into @theblueslist.bsky.social . Whoa! Is that Bobby and the ghost of Big Joe Williams I see?

Leibniz “…every feeling is the perception of a truth...” .

Alexander Calder “My circles aren’t perfect – and I don’t want them to be” .

Paul Simon - America “So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine And the moon rose over an open field "Kathy, I'm lost", I said, though I knew she was sleeping I'm empty and aching and I don't know why” .

Lenka Clayton 'Half a Dozen Eggs, Quarter of a Dozen Raisins' (2018) .

Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life “What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon'...” .

from 'Not Dawdling' by James Broughton "At every crossroad be prepared to bump into wonder." .

Daniel Kramer’s photograph of Bob Dylan & Joan Baez at Newark Airport, 1964. Protest Against the Rising Tide of Conformity .

Jean Rhys "All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.” .

What We Want - Linda Pastan "We don't remember the dream, but the dream remembers us." .

David hockney - Dark Mist, 1973 (from The Weather Series) “there is no such thing as bad weather.” .

Jenny Diski “Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.” .

Georgia’s sister, Ida O'Keeffe (1889 – 1961) got a master's in fine arts from Columbia University and squeezed in creating and exhibiting art while working a series of jobs that included teaching art at schools and working as a nurse. . Spring Lethargy Texas, by Ida O'Keeffe

from ‘Japan’ by Billy Collins Today I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the few words over and over. It feels like eating the same small, perfect grape again and again. .

William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury “Wonder. Go on and wonder.” .

George Harrison: "If just for today I could try to live through this day only Not deal with all life's problems Just for today..." .

The Three Daughters of Helios by Rudy Weller (1992) Look up, when next at Piccadilly Circus (on the corner of Jermyn St. & Haymarket) & you'll see Euphrosyne, Aglaea & Thalia leaping from the rooftop of the Criterion Building - may they fill you with mirth, beauty & youth. .

Robertson Davies "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.“ .

Joni Mitchell - A Case of you (live, London, 1983) “Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling And I would still be on my feet” . youtu.be/f_OtHVLAF4o Photos: Jack Robinson for Vogue magazine, 1968.

Lorna Crozier - from Packing for the Future: Instructions Mistrust no one who offers you water from a well, a songbird’s feather, something that’s been mended twice. Always travel lighter than the heart. .

Paolo Ventura "I use photography not to describe reality but to tell a reconstructed story, an imaginary world.” Ventura makes images of what he calls “invented worlds” or “ir-realities,” . 'Dubliners' (featured in an article in the NYTimes)

Gertrude Stein “You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.” .

Sappho This way, that way I do not know what to do: I am of two minds . Peter Gergardovich Dick - At The Threshold (1979)

Langston Hughes – The Dream Keeper Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamers. Bring me all of your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too rough fingers Of the world. .

e e cummings – 'in time of...'

A table in Vesuvio’s, San Francisco (table design by Shawn O’Shaughnessy) ...and outside in Jack Kerouac Alley, inscribed on the paving stone, this from Lawrence Ferlinghetti: “Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.” Photo - 2019

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham - Pen and ink ‘linear meditations' "lines for the pleasure of themselves..." . Seven Lines No.2 (1982)

A.A. Milne "Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it.” .