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Oscar Wilde: “Coloured Like Flame is His Body”

 

Photographers Unknown, Beguiling the Senses and Enchanting the Mind: Photo Set Six

“Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart’s-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.”

–Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose

Andrew Holleran: “Tomorrow the Rush of Men”

Ten Images, Tomorrow the Rush of Men

“Tomorrow the rush of men, all working for a living, would drown him; but now, at this moment, in this soft green twilight, this soft green Sunday evening, when the heart of the world seemed to lie beating in the palm of his hand, he sat in that huge house upstairs terrified that he would never live.”

― Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance

Ruth Benedict: “Patterns of Culture”

Photographers Unknown, The Parts and Pieces Making a Whole: Set Three

“A culture, like an individual, is a more or less consistent pattern of thought and action. Each people further and further consolidates its experience, and in proportion to the urgency of these drives, the heterogenous items of behaviour take more and more congruous shape.

Such patterning of culture cannot be ignored as if it were an unimportant detail. The whole, as modern science is insisting in many fields, is not merely the sum of all its parts, but the result of a unique arrangement and interrelation of the parts that has brought about a new entity.”

― Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture

Kilroy J. Oldster: “I Shall Listen to the Teaching My Blood Whispers”

Photographers Unknown, Parva Scaena (Brief Scenes): Set Nine

“I must cease living the false life of an imposter, and stop worrying about the future or risk sacrificing the joy of living in the moment. I am a seeker. I shall listen to the teaching my blood whispers and ecstatically accept life unfolding in whatever manner my innate material demands.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Matthew Stover: “The Brightest Light Cast the Darkest Shadow”

Photographers Unknown, The Brightest Light Cast the Darkest Shadow

“The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. 

It always wins because it is everywhere. 

It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the midday sun, and the dark is with you, attached to the soles of your feet. 

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.” 

–Matthew Stover

Daniel Mendelsohn: “There is Only Looking and Finding”

Photographers Unknown, There is Only Looking and Finding

“I did and do believe, after all that I’ve seen and done, that if you project yourself into the mass of things, if you look for things, if you search, you will, by the very act of searching, make something that would not otherwise have happened, you will find something, even something small, something that will certainly be more than if you hadn’t gone looking in the first place, if you hadn’t asked our grandfather anything at all…There are no miracles, no magical coincidences. There is only looking and finally seeing, what was always there.”
― Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million