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| Petani Bay, Kefalonia |
Summer and Winter
❝ It was a bright and cheerful afternoon,
Towards the end of the sunny
month of June,
When the north wind
congregates in crowds
The floating mountains
of the silver clouds
From the horizon--
and the stainless sky
Opens beyond them like eternity. ❞
❝ It was a bright and cheerful afternoon,
Towards the end of the sunny
month of June,
When the north wind
congregates in crowds
The floating mountains
of the silver clouds
From the horizon--
and the stainless sky
Opens beyond them like eternity. ❞
Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Unlike his contemporary (and friend) Lord Byron, Shelley had never visited this little corner of the world.
What more proof do we need that creativity is an intuitive rather than a visual process?
How terribly fortunate was I to have discovered and espoused the eternal words of these literary giants in Dr. Raskin's Age of Romanticism class as a graduate student back at Pace University. It was worth every minute,* despite the brutality of the 3-hour classes of Summer Session!
I can't imagine having to google quotations to accompany my photos, when my own words don't suffice.
(*Well, not every minute. I never got as "cozy" with Coleridge and did skip class on the occasion of "The Lady of Shalott"!)
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