Emerald Eye

'Thus thou has the glory of the whole world; therefore let all obscurity flee before thee.'

The Strange Affair

'A work has two levels of meaning: literal and concealed.' Roland Barthes

Photograph by Carolyn Quartermaine

The White Tower

"Those who were masters of this craft built a tower with great skill; there could be none more beautiful, for it was great and broad and high."

The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

Visions

John Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern Prose, no 12
In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you.

Picture: detail from John William Waterhouse, St Cecilia, 1895.
St Cecelia is the patron saint of musicians.

Anything or Anyone

'Anything or anyone
That does not bring you alive
Is too small for you.'

David Whyte, House of Belonging
Photograph taken at the Salon de Locomotion Arienne in the Grand Palais, Paris, 1909

Someone spoke

'Someone spoke to me last night,
told me the truth. Just a few words,
but I recognised it.'

Dust, by Dorianne Laux

The Poetics of Space

'I am haunted by all
The space that I
Will live without you.'
Richard Brautigan

White Doors (1905) by Danish painter, Vilhelm Hammershoi