Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn

I have taken action against fear. I sat up the whole night and wrote; and now I am as thoroughly tired as after a long walk in the fields at Ulsgaard.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

Image: Robert Clinch, No Standing,  1998

Title: Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes 

The sky runs toward me, laughing like a child

I really don't know clouds at all.
-Joni Mitchell

Image: Found
Title: Yves Bonnefoy, from “The Painter Named Snow”

Both eager and afraid to fall in

That uncrossable gulf between home and away.

-Steve Himmer, excerpt from The Importance of Unwritten Postcards

Image: Jan and Hubert Van Eyck, L’Agneau Mystique (The Ghent Altarpiece), 1432
Title: Rainer Maria Rilke, from Early Journals

Sight

Elsewhere unseen.

Image: Molly Taylor sorts through a pile of eyes, London, 1933

They would rather be trees

There are friendships like circuses, waterfalls, libraries.

-Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister

Image: Érik Desmazières for The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, 2000
Title: Margaret Atwood, Men With the Heads of Eagles