Up there we can look out on an empty square
“O had I wings like to a dove,
then should I from these troubles fly,
to wilderness would I remove,
to spend my life, and there to die.”
(W. Leighton in O had I wings …)
Liège (B)
Warm welcome way-in
”Try imagining a place where it’s always safe and warm
“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm””
(Bob Dylan in Shelter from the storm)
Liège (B)
Herinnering
“Nun wachen wir mit den Erinnerungen
und halten das Gesicht an das, was war;
flüsternde Süße, die uns einst durchdrungen,
sitzt schweigend neben mit gelöstem Haar”
(R.M. Rilke in Nun wachen wir in …)
Wormerveer (NL)
When all has done …
“What shall I do now? What shall I do?
I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street
With my hair down, so. What shall we do to-morrow?
What shall we ever do?”
(T.S. Eliot in Waste Land, 1922)
Seraing (B)
Shut down!
“You took the silver, you took the gold
You left me standing out in the cold …”
(Bob Dylan in Million Miles)
Liège-Bressoux (B)