Valery Bryusov: “A Sweet Whirling of Ecstasy”

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

“If there exist fortunate people, if from time to time the wild sun of joy soars towards foreign lands in a sweet whirling of ecstasy — then where are the words which might tell of this? And if in the world there exists a beauty for enchantment, then how might one describe it?”

― Valery Bryusov

Renaud Duc, “Abel”

Renaud Duc, “Abel, Brussels, Feb 2018”

“In the White Room…”

“In the white room with black curtains near the station
Black roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes
Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment”

– The Cream, “White Room”, 1968, Atlantic Recor

 

Clarity of Water

Photographer Unknown, (The Clarity of Water)

“It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion