So You Say
It is all in the mind, you say, and has
nothing to do with happiness. The coming of cold,
the coming of heat, the mind has all the time in the world.
You take my arm and say something will happen,
something unusual for which we were always prepared,
like the sun arriving after a day in Asia,
like the moon departing after a night with us.
by Mark Strand
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Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956
by Gordon Parks
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Alabama, 1956
by Gordon Parks
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Fort Scott, Kansas, 1963
by Gordon Parks
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"Contemporary sensibility puts so much emphasis on photography as a ‘creative’ activity that we can forget that what photographers really do-whether creative or not-is contend with a medium that forces them to look, to respond, and to record the world in a technologically structured and restricted way. I think that this point is essential to an understanding of photography. You simply cannot look at photographs as if they were ends without means. Each is the culmination of a process in which the photographer makes his decisions and discoveries within a technological framework."
William Crawford, "The Keepers of Light"
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“Oh, Marilla,” she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it? Look at these maple branches. Don’t they give you a thrill—several thrills? I’m going to decorate my room with them.”
– Anne of Green Gables
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Constellations
Imagine they were not minor gods
Mounted in eternal in memoriam
Or even animals, however savage,
Pinned like specimens upon the sky.
Imagine they were lambda dancers
Practicing their slow seductions
On the manifolds of space.
Then in the name of science
We might ride their studded thighs
To the edge of our hypotheses,
Discover there the real constants
Of the universe:
The quick pulse,
The long looks,
The one natural law.
Rebecca Elson
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Branches, c.1955, Original color lithograph
by Fernand Léger
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Fernand Léger, Chevreuse Août, 1951
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Warhaus - When I Am With You
when i am with you
it turns out to be all different
when i am with you it’s alright
"to be here with you" became some kind of reference
that i am doing fine
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A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.
― W.B. Yeats
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American Prospects
by Joel Sternfeld
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So You Say
It is all in the mind, you say, and has
nothing to do with happiness. The coming of cold,
the coming of heat, the mind has all the time in the world.
You take my arm and say something will happen,
something unusual for which we were always prepared,
like the sun arriving after a day in Asia,
like the moon departing after a night with us.
by Mark Strand
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