The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
Bequest of Pavlov to the Academic Youth of His Country. Science, Vol. 83, Issue 2155, pg. 369 (1936)
“Am I that imagine this angel less-satisfied?
Are the wings his, the lapis-haunted air?”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Context: What am I to believe? If the angel in his cloud,
Serenely gazing at the violent abyss,
Plucks on his strings to pluck abysmal glory, Leaps downward through evening’s revelations, and
On his spredden wings, needs nothing but deep space,
Forgets the gold centre, the golden destiny,Grows warm in the motionless motion of his flight,
Am I that imagine this angel less-satisfied?
Are the wings his, the lapis-haunted air?
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 338.
“When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.”
"Keeping Things Whole" (1969)
Source: Selected Poems
Context: p>In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.</p
“A weight is on the air, for ev'ry breeze
Has, bird-like, folded up its wings for sleep.”
The Ancestress (Spoken by Bertha)
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
