It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Albert Camus

To be an poet at twenty is to be twenty: to still be an poet at fifty is to be a poet.
Eugene Delacroix

"Nights are long just now,
short though
when twilight is on the skin
and someone’s breath is mingling with someone’s hair."

– Paavo Haavikko, from “The Short Year”

“I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.” – Muhammad Ali, April 28, 1967