“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)

 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)