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During these difficult times let’s enjoy the magic of the world vicariously, from the window opened by an enchanting painter, Thomas Edwin Mostyn.
“Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing
Eudora Welty’s cover letter for The New Yorker is the best one ever written, that is why I always introduce it at my Creative Writing Course under the heading “How To Pitch Yourself”.
I once said that I could write a poem for each and every one of Harald Sohlberg’s paintings.
They break the silence of the words unspoken but so solemnly thought in the whirlwind of gold whispering leaves blown away in the opera of mellow sunsets.
Harald Sohlberg – Moonlight by the Sea, 1907
“Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!…Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you’re going to smash up. Well, now, that’s something! And then go home again after three hours of it…and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!”
― Jack London
Art by Deborah Poynton.
“If I could not be peaceful in the midst of danger, then the kind of peace I might have in simpler times is meaningless. If I could not find peace in the midst of difficulty, I knew I would never know real peace.”
–Thich Nhat Hanh
Art – Peter Doig
“As much as we complain about other people, there is nothing worse for mental health than a social desert.”
– Charles Montgomery
Art – Isabel Bishop
“We are the masters
of two small islands:
One of carton trees
and hollowed plastic flowers
and One
where the moon lives.
In her eyes
the thawing vernal lights
Endure…”
– Iulia Halatz – From Trapeze artist of the Moon
Amazing photo by Walter Dorsett Photography.
Walter Dorsett Photography
About Iulia Halatz
“Writing is an Iron Tale, must be tough and sincere to the core of human perception of pain as valor. I am the grumpy T-Rex who started writing out of pain, not because of a polished world. Writing out of love is painless and herbivore. As we sometimes taste blood, ours or others’. Nevertheless, some words are so expensive that we are better left with them unspoken or write them with the ink of a Ghost…” She is a teacher, small entrepreneur and cyclist.
The Great Empty at the New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/23/world/coronavirus-great-empty.html
Only these come to mind:
“The terror that whispers in darkness and flames in light,
The doubt that speaks in the silence of earth and sea,
The sense, more fearful at noon than in midmost night,
Of wrath scarce hushed and of imminent till to be,
Where are they? Heaven is as earth, and as heaven to me
Earth: for the shadows that sundered them here take flight;
And naught is all, as am I, but a dream of thee.”
– Charles Algernon Swinburne (1837–1909)
Art – John Harris
“There are a few times when the songs that are written, the poems that are written, the plays that are written, come alive.”
– Sylvia Plath / Journals, 1951-1953
Art – Daria Petrilli
“And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass”
– Ezra Pound, 1885-1972
Art – Caspar David Friedrich, Woman at the window, 1822
