Posts Tagged: courtyards
A chair waiting for the summer to come
On September 24, 2019
- Culture of Industry
"When summer comes I’ll steal away And find the land of shining day; I’ll rest beside the singing streams And make myself a house of dreams." (H. Taylor in When summer comes) Bottrop (D)
Going the narrow way
On October 25, 2016
- Street scenes - buildings
"Nichts wird rechts und links mich kränken, Folg ich kühn dem raschen Flug; Wollte jemand anders denken, Ist der Weg ja breit genug." (J.W. von Goethe in Nichts) Verviers (B)
It is in the air
On November 11, 2015
- Street scenes - garages and parking places
“Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.”
(T.S. Eliot in Ash-Wednesday 1930)
Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (B)
Grey zone
On September 22, 2015
- Street scenes - garages and parking places
“And pray to God to have mercy upon us
And I pray that I may forget …”
(T.S. Eliot in Ash-Wednesday)
Liège (B)