sleep sweet

The Sleepwalker. Maximilián Pirner, 1878 Long hair, pale nightdress, she sleepwalks the window ledge

good night

Black and white photograph lighthouse in fog, dusk, in field

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep,

Virginia Woolf

Sculpture Hypnos, god of sleep

Hypnos, god of Sleep, son of Nyx and Erebus, The Night and The Dark. It is believed Hypnos lived in a cave of poppies, in dark and in quiet, a lush platform for the dream state.

a bard (figural) on a bluebird cloud

balladeer on bluebird

shadow on wall her right hand touches the lower palm, above the wrist, of her left hand

text

Ph. Elliot Erwin

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdain — under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

William James, 1911

We are as much as we see.

Thoreau

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black & white photograph a small bird atop tree by sea and sand dunes

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Emerson

woolly full moon, dark blue sky, nothing else

wooly near-full moon in midnight blue sky

Let nothing be called natural
In an age of bloody confusion,
Ordered disorder, planned caprice,
And dehumanized humanity, lest all things
Be held unalterable!

Bertrolt Brecht, The Exception and the Rule

ash sun over landscape

Ashes
Jeremy Dyer, 2011

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photograph of collage black background off-white abstract architectural fragments in foreground

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

Haruki Murakami

Photograph Bare winter forest with an enormous full moon

Ah, faeries, dancing under the moon, A Druid land, a Druid tune!

Yeats

ph. unknown

Origin: Frescos in Palazzo Schifanoia Early Renaissance mythological painting (detail) of Minerva above a mythical horned ram Blue background, white horned ram, Minerva in long red dress Minerva is often depicted with symbols of peace such as the olive tree and the owl as wisdom. The poet Ovid referred to her as the ‘goddess of a thousand works.’

Allegory of March – Triumph of Minerva and Sign of Aries. (1470)

Francesco del Cossa

Yes.
and his excellent word coining

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.

"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."

"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."

Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

Tolkien

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

Tolkien

You are on a cloud, in a world of chaos pulled by a speed of denial, and you weep.

Ph. Parke-Harrison

Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War 1913-1916

Guillaume Apollinaire

still-winter trees, low clouds briefly illuminated by shy departed sun

trills of birds, staccato

Young woman holding libation cup Painted terracotta; study for a work in pâte-de-verre (glass ground to powder and put in clay mold for firing)

Saturday morning, with coffee

César Isidore Henry Cros, 1891

Stanza 3, Lines 15-21

The Moon and the Yew Tree
Sylvia Plath

flux, flow

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watercolour butterfly light bronze hued on cream paper

The thing about Proust is his
combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.

Virginia Woolf

a branch of blackberry, a thicket

a memory of August and wild blackberries in the basket