In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Joni Mitchell “And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game” . 050
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Gwen Raverat - The Marsh (woodcut), 1909 0102
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Wei Wu Wei (Terence James Stannus Gray) “Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!” . 061
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Abdellatif Laâbi - Fingerprints If we could write simply by placing fingerprints on a page it would relieve the pain we endure trying to be original at any price . 080
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Paul Cupido - Uoon, 2019 From his series inspired by the Japanese concept of 'mono no aware', which refers to the transience of everything, the gentle melancholy of things and their passing (as well as a longer, deeper, gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life). . 0144
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Isadora Duncan “If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it” . Drawing of Isadora Duncan by Van Dearing Perrine 0197
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Federico Fellini “I see no line between the imaginary and the real.” . 8½ (1963) 0100
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Henry Miller (the Wisdom Of The Heart) "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." . 1131
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Dorothea Tanning “Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.” . 090
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Jean Cocteau “My dream in music would be to hear the music of Picasso’s guitars.” . 0143
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea “I've felt as if I didn't exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can't imagine how much alone I've been all my life.” . Marcel Gagnon figures - Sainte-Flavie, Quebec 0183
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026From 'Autumn Sky' by Charles Simic The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence. . 0275
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Ruth Thorne-Thomsen - Levitating Man, Wisconsin (from the Door series), 1983 0183
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Ursula K. Le Guin (from Hymn to Time) Time is being and being time, it is all one thing, the shining, the seeing, the dark abounding. . 0499
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Jorge Luis Borges "Scattered through the ordinary world there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth" . 16014
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti on his birthday today. "The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it." . 0298
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Milan Kundera (Immortality) “The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.” . 0247
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Bob Kaufman - from Jail Poems (Written in San Francisco City Prison, Cell 3, 1959) 26 I sit here writing, not daring to stop, For fear of seeing what's outside my head. . 071
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Homage by Leopoldo Maler, 1974 This work has a great deal of personal meaning for Maler. His uncle, David Kraiselburd, an Argentinian journalist, was killed for the inflammatory content of his essays. The old Underwood typewriter is of a similar style to that his uncle used during his career. 050
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Homage by Leopoldo Maler, 1974. Hess Collection, Napa . 1102
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 14/03/2026For today's #BlueSkyArtShow - #Horizonal Jane Hirshfield "Today, my hope is vertical. Tomorrow it will be horizontal. The next day, cloudy." . 0255
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Rene Magritte "Nothing is confused, except the mind." . Duane Michals - Rene Magritte in Bowler Hat (Multiple Exposure), 1965 1265
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Mervyn Peake (extract from 'Is There no Love Can Link Us?') Is there no love can link us – I and they? Only this hectic moment? This fierce instant Striking now Its universal, its uneven blow? There is no other link. Only this sliding Second we share: this desperate edge of now. . 0132
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025G.K. Chesterton “The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.” . 1416
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass “Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.” . 0265
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Jorge Luis Borges - The Moon (for Maria Kodama) There is such loneliness in that gold. The moon of the nights is not the moon Whom the first Adam saw. The long centuries Of human vigil have filled her With ancient lament. Look at her. She is your mirror. . 0225
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley: In Search of America “I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.” . 0404
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 16/06/2025George Carlin “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” . 0255
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Iris Murdoch (from The Message to the Planet). "Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream." . Picasso - Guernica, 1937 0294
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Robert Walser From ‘Too Philosophical ‘ (translated by Daniele Pantano) How ghostly my life in its fall and rise. Always I see myself waving to myself, floating away from the one waving. . 0243
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 17/05/2025For today's #BlueSkyArtShow - #Texture Textured seascape (The Bay of Biscay) 0453
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 15/05/2025The late & great Raymond Carver: "My bowl is empty. But it's my bowl, you see, and I love it." 1243
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Haiku by Billy Collins Moon in the window the same as it was before there was a window. . 1172
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Leibniz “…every feeling is the perception of a truth...” . 0249
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Alexander Calder “My circles aren’t perfect – and I don’t want them to be” . 0254
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Paul Simon - America “So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine And the moon rose over an open field "Kathy, I'm lost", I said, though I knew she was sleeping I'm empty and aching and I don't know why” . 0130
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Lenka Clayton 'Half a Dozen Eggs, Quarter of a Dozen Raisins' (2018) . 0161
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 21/04/2025from 'Not Dawdling' by James Broughton "At every crossroad be prepared to bump into wonder." . 0181
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Bob and Joan were standing in front of a poster designed by Seymour Chwast for Booth’s Gin with Joan casually blocking the actual product image to highlight the message… . 0190
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Daniel Kramer’s photograph of Bob Dylan & Joan Baez at Newark Airport, 1964. Protest Against the Rising Tide of Conformity . 2416
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Jean Rhys "All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.” . 0140
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025What We Want - Linda Pastan "We don't remember the dream, but the dream remembers us." . 0236
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025David hockney - Dark Mist, 1973 (from The Weather Series) “there is no such thing as bad weather.” . 0181
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Jenny Diski “Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.” . 2333
In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Georgia’s sister, Ida O'Keeffe (1889 – 1961) got a master's in fine arts from Columbia University and squeezed in creating and exhibiting art while working a series of jobs that included teaching art at schools and working as a nurse. . Spring Lethargy Texas, by Ida O'Keeffe 1326
