...pious resignation...

' L'Empire des lumières '



Darkness cannot 
drive out darkness: only light can do that.


René Magritte


'Place des Abesses', Maurice Utrillo 

Charles Sheeler

Gracious Saviour, when life’s day-dreams

        Melt and vanish from the sight,

May our dim and longing vision

        Then be blessed with light, more light.

Henri le Sidaner

Jean Édouard Vuillard


Gently she shows them
what she is wearing. Pearls of grief
and the fine-spun veils of patience.-
With youths she walks in silence.


Sir Herbert James Gunn 


Tavík František Šimon 

But even then

the night could not hold long against the light,   

and light destroys roots, fog, lies, orchids, night,   

dawn stars, the moon, delusions, and most magic. 

George Clausen 

Arnold Mason 

My soul is impatient with itself...


Polly (Ethel) Thayer 


 James Hart Dyke 


don't know to whom this belongs to

Margie Rich


Waiting is painful. 
Forgetting is painful. 
But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.


Lev Alexandrovich Russov


Nguyen Thai Tuan


Léon Spilliaert


Jacob Collins



Léon Spilliaert


James Proudfoot


'Window, Cour de Rohan' -  Balthus




 Henri Le Sidaner

    1. Martin Luther King Jr.  

      (A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches)

    2. from a poem of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper   

    3. from a poem of Rilke

    4. from a poem of Andrew Hudgins 

5. line  Pessoa
6. line - Paulo Coelho