M. C. Escher - A Man's Intuition

everythingliterature - truth in beauty

0 REMAIN, DEAR ONE...


"O remain, dear one, I love you,

Stay with me in my fair land,

For your dreamings and longings

Only I can understand.



You, who like a prince reclining

O'er the pool with heaven starred;

You who gaze up from the water

With such earnest deep regard.



Stay, for where the lapping wavelets

Shake the tall and tasseled grass,

I will make you hear in secret

How the furtive chamois pass.



Oh, I see you wrapped in magic,

Hear your murmur low and sweet,

As you break the shallow water

With your slender naked feet;



See you thus amidst the ripples

Which the moon's pale beams engage,

And your years seem but an instant,

And each instant seems an age."



Thus spake the woods in soft entreaty;

Arching boughs above me bent,

But I whistled high, and laughing

Out into the open went.



Now though e'en I roamed that country

How could I its charm recall...

Where has boyhood gone, I wonder,

With its pool and woods and all?


Poem by Mihai Eminescu - Version by Corneliu M. Popescu

Transcribed by Gabriela Brancovici

everythingliterature - Imagine

The decision to prohibit books is a sign of weakness and fear. The gesture invites to laziness and discontent. A book is art. Art is inspiration. Between covers there is paper and hard work. Imagine the man who built his house. There is science and love and pain. Banning books anywhere is an unemotional act. Those who hate other people hate them anyway. They find new ways to pick on them. Political correctness is not correct. What we feel is correct. PC cannot ban what we feel. A book has powers over emotions. It can change how we feel. Artists work with the untouchable. They are not good at other things. Most are not good at living, all consumed. Some writers become mad and commit suicide. Words don’t help anymore. They do it so well, is hard to believe they’re mad. Some are happy writers. They play with words. To the blank eyes, they seem a bit odd or impaired. Banning impaired is not PC.
By ICL

art and the city

everythingliterature - Scheherazade

The Story of the Porter and the Ladies of Baghdad - Fragment


She next stopped at the shop of a fruiterer, and bought of him Syrian apples, and ‘Othmani quinces, and peaches of ‘Oman, and jasmine of Aleppo, and water-lilies of Damascus, and cucumbers of the Nile, and Egyptian limes, and Sultani citrons, and sweet-scented myrtle, and sprigs of the henna-tree, and chamomile, and anemones, and violets, and pomegranate-flowers, and eglantine: all these she put into the porter’s crate, and said to him, Take it up. So he took it up, and followed her until she stopped at the shop of a butcher, to whom she said, Cut off ten pounds of meat;—and he cut it off for her, and she wrapped it in a leaf of a banana-tree, and put it in the crate, and said again, Take it up, O porter:—and he did so, and followed her. She next stopped at the shop of a seller of dry fruits, and took some of every kind of these, and desired the porter to take up his burden. Having obeyed, he followed her until she stopped at the shop of a confectioner, where she bought a dish, and filled it with sweets of every kind that he had, which she put into the crate; whereupon the porter ventured to say, If thou hadst informed me beforehand, I had brought with me a mule to carry all these things.
The lady smiled at his remark, and next stopped at the shop of a perfumer, of whom she bought ten kinds of scented waters; rose-water, and orange-flower-water, and willow-flower-water, &c.; together with some sugar, and a sprinkling-bottle of rose-water infused with musk, and some frankincense, and aloes-wood, and ambergris, and musk, and wax candles; and, placing all these in the crate, she said, Take up thy crate, and follow me. He, therefore, took it up, and followed her until she came to a handsome house, before which was a spacious court. It was a lofty structure, with a door of two leaves, composed of ebony, overlaid with plates of red gold.

Ask Eve - what do you see from where you are?

I see the beauty, the symmetry and the perfect mechanism of the leaf, there is light

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe - living by art