Journal of a Nobody
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. ~Italo Calvino
Commonplace book of a teacher, poet, and counselor.
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A Copse of Trees, 1508
red chalk on paper
height: 191 mm / width: 153 mm
Such simple natural drawings by Leonardo da Vinci…they remind me of the way a Wordsworth poem feels.
Storm over a valley in the foothills of the Alps, 1506
Red Chalk on Paper
height 200 mm / width 150mm
(Source: honeymuse, via an-itinerant-poet)
