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 shadows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shadows. Show all posts

Friday, December 18, 2015

Not Waving but Drowning






















Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
 

Image: Arthur Siegel, Study of Negative/Positive Profiles, c.1937
Title: Stevie Smith

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Something Godlike: Both Tree and Center











 











I was left behind with the immensity of existing things…a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
-Czesław Miłosz

Image: Peter Keetman, Projektion, 1953
Title: Rilke, from The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams

Sunday, February 16, 2014

I studied the little girl and at last rediscovered my mother
























A novel is not a place one passes through; it is a place one inhabits.
-Paulin Limayrac, “Du Roman acuel et de nos romanciers,” Revue des deux mondes from The Arcades Project
Image: Sergio Larrain, Passage Bavestrello, Valparaiso, Chili, 1952
Title: Selina Mayer