painting by Zdzislaw Beksinski

Thoughts that found a maze of mermaid hair
Tangling in the tide’s green fall
Now fold their wings like bats and disappear
Into the attic of the skull.
We are not what we might be; what we are
...Outlaws all extrapolation
Beyond the interval of now and here:
White whales are gone with the white ocean.
-Sylvia Plath
(Painting by Ilya Yefimovich Repin)

'' Time drops in decay,
Like a candle burnt out,
And the mountains and woods
Have their day, have their day”
-William Butler Yeats

''The kingdom is extended. Night
Dwells, and I contemplate the sight
That is not seeing, but the light
That secretly is kindled,
Though oft-time its most holy fire
Lacks oil, whene’er my own desire
Before desire has dwindled.'' -Aleister Crowley 

( painting by Fernand Khonopff )

  (painting by Jacob Jordaens)

“No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
   -Terry Pratchett

“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”
-Baruch Spinoza  (artwork by Iv Solyaev )

 Happy Mothers Day to ALL Moms!

 photo by Chris Wemmer, ''Deer Aura''

''Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason''. -Octavio Paz  
(painting by Diego Rivera, ''The Knight of the Tiger'')