Isidro Li
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'The unknown and mysterious is the result and the beginning of everything.' (Novalis)
I depend on the stars and the places of night This is what it is intent space, and the speed which is light, growing past any shape the half-door or the door slightly open — Larry Eigner
Jean-Léon Gérôme, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘵 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘦, c. 1899.
Nearer to Thee, not by delusion led, Though there no house fires burn nor bright eyes gaze: We rise, but by the symbol charioted, Through loved things rising up to Love’s own ways: By these the soul unto the vast has wings And sets the seal celestial on all mortal things. — Æ
𝘈𝘭𝘭 that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. — Edgar Allan Poe
He whose bride is a ghost cannot live. Even though in his blood there existed the force of a life of one hundred years, that force must quickly perish. — Lafcadio Hearn
Infinitesimal, but not concealed So deep but I can deeper lean: As much cerulean this way as above, Whole atoms with a firmament between. That strain to plumb the swimming fire of stars, That trembling push to stare through the opaque. — Hildegard Flanner
From Joris Hoefnagel's 𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘘𝘷𝘢𝘥𝘳𝘷𝘱𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘦𝘵 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢 (𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢), c. 1575
So clear a day — vast a breath How far from all you are here. — Cid Corman
The tomb of thy dead self Which one vexed ghost inhabits, night and day, Is all, lost child, that now remains of thee! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A little onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on — John Milton