These fragments I have shored against my ruins. -T.S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.  -T.S. Eliot
Showing posts with label ships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ships. Show all posts

Monday, September 2, 2013

Willing to Sail






Only a shipwrecked person who has just escaped drowning could understand the psychology of someone who breaks out in laughter just because he is able to breathe.
-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

Image: Caspar David Friedrich, Seashore with Shipwreck by Moonlight, 1825-30 
Title: from John Macdonald's, A Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Dictionary, Numerically Arranged on a Very Comprehensive Scale, 1817



Wednesday, March 6, 2013

A strange melancholy pervades me






















     The tides are in our veins.
-Robinson Jeffers


Image: Ray K. Metzker, Pictus Interruptus
Title: Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse


Sunday, November 4, 2012

I understand the language of waves


















"Everything begins with a story."

-Joseph Campbell


Image: Erich Hartmann, Pair of shoes on deck, Carribbean, 1984
Title: Thanks to Le Testament d’Orphée (Testament of Orpheus)

Monday, August 13, 2012

The Endless Immensity of the Sea












"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

Image: Akos Major

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Eternity and it is Just as Flat and Wide

















I see the world is flat and the map flat
that records it, and both page and world
speak each other forever. Put a fold
in eternity and it is just as flat and wide.
Take the map of the world and fold it
into a boat and the boat becomes the world.

-Dan Beachy-Quick from Spell 

[image: Johann Ruysch world map, 1507-1508]