In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
— Stephen Crane, In the Desert
(Source: poetryfoundation.org)
Bartolomeu Velho, Figure of the heavenly bodies. 1568. An illuminated illustration of the Ptolemaic geocentric conception of the universe.
The ninth sphere — the Primum Mobile — was contained only by the mind of God, and constituted all of physical creation and space. Unchanging, it is the structure in which all change is framed. It is the outermost limit of the universe, and the beginning of creation. The spiritual motion of intention or love creates physical motion.
Light and love enclose it in one circle
As it does all the rest, and this enclosing
He alone who circles it can comprehend.Its motion is not measured by another’s,
But this sphere sets the others into motion,
As ten is factored into five and two.
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto XXVII, l. 112-117.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Between your love for me and mine for you
—air of stars and tremor of plant—
a thicket of anemones raises
with a dark moan an entire year.
— Federico García Lorca, from Sonnet of the Garland of Roses, p. 831.
Marcel Duchamp, Après l’amour (After love, or, After Lovemaking). 1967-68. Etching on vellum, 50 x 24 cm (plate size), 50.5 cm x 32.5 cm (sheet size).
You are like me, you will die too, but not today:
you, incommensurate, therefore the hours shine:
Reginald Shepherd, You, Therefore.
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