“Easter Morning” illustration 2016 by jpbohannon
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
J. B. Priestly
Easter morning…
Quotes from literature
Quote #57: “Then the big elm shot up ahead…”
“Elm Tree” illustration 2016 by jpbohannon
“Then the big elm shot up ahead, lying in wait for them at the bend of the road, and he said between his teeth: ‘We can fetch it; I know we can fetch it–‘”
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
Quote #55: “With one kiss…” Pablo Neruda
Portrait of Pablo Neruda by Andrea Ventura
“With one kiss, you will know all that I haven’t said.” Pablo Neruda
(En un beso, sabrás todo lo que he callado)
Quote 46: “…T is not too late to seek a newer world.” Tennyson
Ulysses sailing west
illustration 2013 by jpbohannon
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
‘T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
from “Ulysses”
from “Ulysses”
Quote 45: “The bowler hat was a motif in the musical composition … .”
Sabina’s Bowler
illustration 2015 by jpbohannon
The bowler hat was a motif in the musical composition that was Sabina’s life. It returned again and again, each time with a different meaning, and all the meanings flowed through the bowler hat like water through a riverbed. … each time the same object would give rise to a new meaning, though all former meanings would resonate (like an echo, like a parade of echoes) together with the new one.
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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