“The infinite is inside / our eyes; / not outside, not in the things / of this world, / but in their shadows. / Night, Death, Blinking, / take us through the universe again, / out of time.”
Source: The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 40
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Lotta Love
Source: Song lyrics, Comes a Time (1978)
“We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside… Inside.”
Love and Death (1975)
“The world is beautiful outside: white, green, and red; but inside it is black and dark as death.”
Diu welt ist ûzen schoene wîz grüen unde rôt
und innân swarzer varwe vinster sam der tôt.
"Owe war sint verswunden alliu mîniu jâr", line 37; translation from George Fenwick Jones Walther von der Vogelweide (New York: Twayne, 1968) p. 136.
“Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.”
Second chorus, lines 1-12.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
Context: Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time with a gift of tears,
Grief with a glass that ran,
Pleasure with pain for leaven,
Summer with flowers that fell,
Remembrance fallen from heaven,
And Madness risen from hell,
Strength without hands to smite,
Love that endures for a breath;
Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.
Extract from Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings, (from Chapter 1: The excitement of discovering the nature of carving, 1903-1930), with an introduction by Herbert Read, London, 1952
1947 - 1960
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Everything Is Illuminated (2002)