Paul Holdengraber

REMEMBERING SUMMER “but I don’t remember the summer heat like that only the long days the breathing of the trees” ~ W. S. Merwin from, “Garden Time”

📷 Gustave Le Gray

Gustave Le Gray, 19th century @holdengraber

Gustave Le Gray @holdengraber

Gustave Le Gray, 1856 @holdengraber

Gustave Le Gray, 19th century @holdengraber

📷 Gustave Le Gray. Autoportrait au daguerréotype 1847. Paris selfie

“…what we possess is easily lost. All we have and possess is what we long for; all we are is what we’ve never been. I was less a phenomenon than a longing, only in my longing did I live, and all that I was was nothing more than longing.” — Robert Walser (tr. Susan Bernofsky)

"Coincidences? There aren't any." ~ Julio Cortazar thanks to @michaeljaco

"Il n’y a pas de hasard, il n’y a que des rendez-vous." Paul Éluard, L’Amour la poésie

Turner

Roman Vishniac, 1924

Absquatulate

David Burdeny, Iceberg

W. G. Sebald (in an essay on Handke, on critics’ neglect of his metaphysical concerns): “Nowadays there is evidently no longer any discursive context in which metaphysics can claim a place as of right. And yet art, wherever and whenever it comes into being, [+]

is most intimately connected to the realm of metaphysics. In order to explore this relationship, the writer must have recourse to an unprecedented degree of courage, whereas of course for criticism and science, which now only regard metaphysics as a kind of lumber room, [+]

it is easy to get away with the general remark that the air is thin in the higher regions and the risk of falling great.” (from “Across the Border,” in Silent Catastrophes, trans. Jo Catling)

Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Corn Goddess, who always arrive when I am on an island, unannounced and whose luggage has always been left at the airport: 'But we’ve brought the wine — the most important thing!' — Lawrence Durrell Costas Achillopoulos

Paul Celan (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop)