Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)

“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”  

Shih Ching (11th-7th cent.BC)

Collecting Kudzu Vine

He went away to collect kudzu vine.
One day’s absence
is as long as three months.

He went away to collect wormwood.
One day’s absence
is as long as three seasons.

He went away to collect moxa.
One day’s absence
is as long as three years.

Meng Chiao (751-814)

Sam Hamill

Wanderer’s Song

 

The thread in the hand of a kind mother
Is the coat on the wanderer’s back.
Before he left she stitched it close
In secret fear that he would be slow to return.
Who will say that the inch of grass in his heart
Is gratitude enough for all the sunshine of spring?

Jim Warren

Shakespeare (1564-1616)

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”  

Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”  

Homer's Odyssey

The journey of Odysseus from Troy to Ithaca takes ten years — the same amount of time that the Trojan War itself lasted. The extraordinary length of Odysseus' return trip, which should take a matter of weeks, is due to his many antagonists, including the god Poseidon, the many mythical creatures he encounters, and Odysseus' often greedy and lazy crewmen.

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

A Challenge To The Dark

shot in the eye
shot in the brain
shot in the ****
shot like a flower in the dance

amazing how death wins hands down
amazing how much credence is given to idiot forms of life

amazing how laughter has been drowned out
amazing how viciousness is such a constant

I must soon declare my own war on their war
I must hold to my last piece of ground
I must protect the small space I have made that has allowed me life

my life not their death
my death not their death…

Charles Bukowski :

Adrian Borda

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”  

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”  

Micmojo Photography

Valley Girl

Takato Yamamoto

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”  

Jerry Garcia (1942-1995)

“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
― Jerry García

Andy Goldsworthy

Filipe-Pagliuso

Rainer Maria Rilke

Last Resort