Self-Portrait | Redtree Times
Each for himself, we all sustain The durance of our ghostly pain; Then to Elysium we repair, The few, and breathe this blissful air. –Virgil, Aeneid (29–19 BC) This year’s edition of my…| Redtree Times
The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable. –Marcel Proust, The Maxims of Marcel Proust (ed. 1948) Proust certainly knew […]| Redtree Times
But the Wise Perceive Things About to Happen “For the gods perceive future things,ordinary people things in the present, butthe wise perceive things about to happen.” –Philostratos, Life of Apollonios of Tyana, viii, 7. Ordinary people know what’s happening now,the gods know future thingsbecause they alone are totally enlightened.Of what’s to come the wise perceivethings […]| Redtree Times
Look down the long valley and there stands a mountainThat someone has said is the end of the world.Then what of this river that having arisenMust find where to pour itself into and empty?I never saw so much swift water run cloudless.Oh, I have been often too anxious for riversTo leave it to them […]| Redtree Times
Each for himself, we all sustain The durance of our ghostly pain; Then to Elysium we repair, The few, and breathe this blissful air. –Virgil, Aeneid (29–19 BC) This year’s edition of my…| Redtree Times
I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where…| Redtree Times
