"The State Of The World Calls Out For Poetry" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Chicago, IL
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evening’s
wandering airs,
With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the
thickest stars.
Winds take a pensive tone, and stars a tender fire,
And visions rise, and change, that kill me with
desire.
— Emily Brontë
Photo: Promontory Point, Chicago. October 2024
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Dark cannot blot the dark
In the place I know.
Rain cannot drown the rain,
Wind cannot blow
The wind of that stormed land
Where stillness falls
On sudden wings, like a band
Of quiet birds on ruined walls.
- Martha Ostenso
Photo: Chicago. March 2024
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I know that each one of us travels to love alone,
alone to faith and to death.
I know it. I’ve tried it. It doesn’t help.
Let me come with you.
- Yannis Ritsos, ‘Moonlight Sonata’
Photo: Chicago Loop. 2024
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sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone
are the dead
rattling the walls
that close us in.
— Charles Bukowski
Photo: State Street, Chicago. February 2023
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We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
- T. S. Eliot
State Street, Chicago. 2024
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Dirk Schulte
Die ruhende Hand
2023
ALT Das Schwarzweißfoto zeigt die Hand einer Skulptur. Sie liegt auf einem Mauerstein auf, der aus einer Fuge herausragt.
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O years! and age! farewell:
Behold I go,
Where I do know
Infinity to dwell.
And these mine eyes shall see
All times, how they
Are lost i’ th’ sea
Of vast eternity: –
Where never moon shall sway
The stars; but she,
And night, shall be
Drown’d in one endless day.
- Robert Herrick
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There is darkness in light,
there is pain in joy,
and there are thorns on the rose.
― Cate Tiernan
Photo: Chicago "L". The Loop. November 2023
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“How strange it is, to be standing leaning against the current of time.” ― W.G. Sebald
Photo: Nichols Bridgeway, Millennium Park, Chicago. June 2023
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“Getting inspired or motivated is like experiencing an electric shock, it flows through your heart for a small time but the impact it leaves is eternal.”
Truth.
Photo: Pilsen, Chicago. 2022
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"I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder"
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Photo: Chicago. August 2017.
I am still awaiting.
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“I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form / Come in, she said
I'll give ya shelter from the storm” - Bob Dylan.
Photo: Chicago. June 2022
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“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy” ― Charles Baudelaire. Photo: Chicago. September 2019
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„Der größte Missbrauch ist, wenn von der Macht sie das Gewissen trennt.“
„The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins remorse from power.”
- #Shakespeare, Julius Caesar II,1
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