“We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why.”
― Ernst Toller
“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”
― Shelley
This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.
“…and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee…”
—Donne, Meditation XVII[17]
“Every angel is terrifying.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.
“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle
And, when the roads of Brussel were closed to cars this Sunday, that is exactly what the population did.
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov
Back in May 2012 I captured a shot of the supermoon as it shone over belgradestreets…
The photo above was captured this evening as the moon emerged from the clouds over the rooftops of Brussel…
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.
“Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air.
And everything conspires to keep quiet about us, half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies