“After all, if we stop to think, the stars have been fleeing from us from the very beginning. Every night they're further away, though they give the impression of being in the same place. But we shouldn't feel lonely as a result. No. Not at all. As long as there's a fire there will be a story waiting to be told. And then we'll open our mouths wide and swallow all that we can of the night. And, for the first time, the same song will begin.” -Luis Sagasti

"Language is not the lowborn, gawky servant of thought and feeling; it is need, thought, feeling, and perception itself. The shape of sentences, the song in its syllables, the rhythm of its movement, is the movement of the imagination." -William H. Gass

I knew every raindrop by its name. -Denis Johnson

A view of the ornate art and architecture of a building in Chennai, India, 1948. Photograph by Volkmar Wentzel, National Geographic Creative

Seen from Castello Brown, Portofino, Italy, hugs the shoreline, February 1965.Photograph by Winfield Parks, National Geographic

Elliott Erwitt: Milan, 2002 / Magnum Photos

“Do you know how much harm happily ever after has caused mankind?” -Victor LaValle

Aiguille du Bionnassay circa 1930.

I love three things, I then say. I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.

And which do you love best?

The dream.

-Knut Hamsun, Pan

Portrait of a woman dressed in clothing typical of Lagartera in Toledo, Spain, August 1924.Photograph by Jules Gervais Courtellemont, National Geographic

"I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

“What we miss - what we lose and what we mourn - isn't it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have.” -Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

Nelly’s, Dresden, 1922 -by Hugo Erfurth  [+]

Nelly’s (Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari) (1899-1998) studied photography with Hugo Erfurth. Some good ressources:

Benaki Museum (where Nelly’s donated her archives - bio. and portfolio)

Webtopos (site of Katerina Sarri - bio, chronology, ref.)

American College of Greece (bio and some of her early studio work)

photo via amadelio

The miraculous is everywhere and in everything. Waiting for us to notice it. Waiting for us to appreciate it. Waiting for us to love it. -Kobi Yamada, Noticing

A solitary fisherman’s home keeps watch on quiet Placentia Bay in Newfoundland, Canada, 1974.Photograph by Sam Abell, National Geographic Creative

"What's past is written in stone. What's next is written in water." -Lauren Wolk, Beyond the Bright Sea