Category: Canterbury to Rome

If it’s not Baroque, don’t fix it.

Cogsworth, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other…

Robert Frost, ‘The Road Less Travelled’

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Jane Austen

There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man … gradually the form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place.

George Nakashima

Very deep, very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?

Thomas Mann

Behold, my friends, the spring is come

Sitting Bull

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before, and the first of what is still to come.

Leonardo da Vinci

O bruit doux de la pluie
Par terre et sur les toits !
Pour un coeur qui s’ennuie,
O le chant de la pluie !

Paul Verlaine

When you take a flower in your hand, it’s your world for the moment

Georgia O’Keeffe