Wednesday, June 29, 2011

"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do." - Anais Nin (Photo of Maria Germanova 1908 in The Blue Bird)

Monday, June 27, 2011

''Lend, lend your wings! i mount! i fly! o grave! where is thy victory? o death! where is thy sting?''
-Alexander Pope

Saturday, June 25, 2011

"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own." - Percy Bysshe Shelley (Drawing by Albin Brunovsky) 

Sunday, June 19, 2011

“Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n” -John Milton 
 ( painting by Wladyslaw Podkowinski )

Friday, June 17, 2011

''Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore''. -Lord Byron

( illustration by Dan Hellier )

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

"On this night I had searched for them without success, fearing to find them; they were nowhere in the house, nor about the moonlit dawn. For, although the sun is lost to us for ever, the moon, full-orbed or slender, remains to us. Sometimes it shines by night, sometimes by day, but always it rises and sets, as in that other life."- Ambrose Bierce   (photo by Horydczak Theodor, ''Charles Bittinger in painting Moon Eclipse'')

Friday, June 3, 2011

''The nearer the dawn the darker the night'' -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  ( painting by Jeffrey Jones, ''Dark Angel'')

Thursday, June 2, 2011

“Into a Limbo large and broad, since called / The paradise of fools, to few unknown.”
-John Milton   (painting by Zdzislaw Beksinski)
   O radiant Dark!  O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day. 

 -George Eliot  (illustration by Scott Belcastro)