" I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching. "

In the night I will drink from a cup of ashes and yellow paint.

In the night I will gossip with the clouds and grow strong.

edouard vuillard

the self and the soul in the darkness

chanting to the ecstatic chance of existence.

Christopher Thompson




Kenton Nelson

always real, always elusive, always a city, 
and wonderful, and lost. 
All night I wander alone, searching in vain for the irretrievable.






kim cogan






Edward Hopper




In the night I will cross rooftops to watch the sea tremble in a dream.

Joseph Pennell


 ...a city that feels the way the skin of  
 an octopus looks pulse-changing from color to color, 
 laminar and fluid and electric, 
 a city of shadow-draped churches... 



John Sloan 

Deep is the darkness and long is the night,

solid the water and liquid the light. How strange

that they arrive at all, nights on planet earth.

Zachary Johnson







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title - Pessoa
all lines from a poem 'Nights on Planet Earth' by CAMPBELL MCGRATH