Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus

tide ~  κύμα     ©fourteenth

τὰ πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει ~ Ήράκλειτος


Nothing endures but change ~ Heraclitus  

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χάρτης το σώμα
ποταμοί διατρέχουν
λάσπη και πόνο

makis tselentis

The silence is all white : Ivan Goll

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The temple is all white
The god is all white
The silence is all white

Yet somewhere a dark water breathes
and prays

My body is all white
Yet somewhere my dark blood breathes
And prays

Der Tempel ist ganz weiss
Der Gott ist ganz weiss
Die Stille ist ganz weiss

Nur irgenwo atmet ein dunkles Wasser
und betet

Mein Leib ist ganz weiss
Nur irgendwo atmet mein dunkles Blut
Und betet

Ivan Goll

from the Malayan Love songs

We are only passing by.

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Looking down

lines of light reflecting;

little fish around my feet

Fish, light, cool sea-surface--

We are only passing by. We were never really here.

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you : T.S.Eliot (from Four Quartets)

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you 

Which shall be the darkness of God. As, in a theatre, 

The lights are extinguished, for the scene to be changed 

With a hollow rumble of wings, with a movement of darkness on darkness, 

And we know that the hills and the trees, the distant panorama 

And the bold imposing facade are all being rolled away— 

Or as, when an underground train, in the tube, stops too long between stations 

And the conversation rises and slowly fades into silence 

And you see behind every face the mental emptiness deepen 

Leaving only the growing terror of nothing to think about; 

Or when, under ether, the mind is conscious but conscious of nothing— 

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope 

For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, 

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith 

But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. 

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: 

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. T. S. Eliot. Four Quartets.

To be great, be whole : Ricardo Reis (Fernando Pessoa)

dawning  ©fourteenth

To be great, be whole: nothing that's you
Should you exaggerate or exclude.
In each thing, be all. Give all you are
In the least you ever do.
The whole moon, because it rides so high,
Is reflected in each pool.

Odes
Ricardo Reis (Fernando Pessoa)

...immensity taps at your life : Jane Hirshfield

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Even in this
one lifetime,
you will have to choose.

Jane Hirshfield

a journey : Li Po

journeys  ©fourteenth

  Journeying is hard,
  Journeying is hard.
  There are many turnings --
     Which am I to follow?....
  I will mount a long wind some day and break the heavy waves
  And set my cloudy sail straight and bridge the deep, deep sea.

Li Po

look within

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look within

a world of

solid stone hits back

If love unfolds, it unfolds here.

wing    ©fourteenth












If love unfolds, it unfolds here.

Linda Gregg

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment

fragile instruments            © fourteenth

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Rumi

To see in every day and year a symbol of all the days of man

rock cliff reed    ©fourteenth

To see in every day and year a symbol
of all the days of man and his years,
and convert the outrage of the years
into a music, a sound, and a symbol.

Jorge Luis Borges from The Art of Poetry 

the one word that will protect you...

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I would like to give you the silver

branch, the small white flower, the one

word that will protect you

from the grief at the center

of your dream, from the grief

at the center.

Margaret Atwood

ζωή life

 Δύναμις, σθένος, ορθοστασία, ζωή

Strength, vigour, standing still, life

"on the move", ink drawing by fourteenth