Andrea Darra

Yellow Rose

“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot”.

Salvador Dalí

It was April

“Sharply the menacing wind sweeps over
The bending poplars, newly bare,
And the dark ribbons of the chimneys
Veer downward; flicked by whips of air”.

Gordon Comstock

After the Storm

“There is peace even in the storm”.

Vincent van Gogh

Like a star

“We’re up all night ’til the sun, We’re up all night to get some
We’re up all night for good fun, We’re up all night to get lucky”.

Daft Punk

Sunny Afternoon

“If you only walk on sunny days you’ll never reach your destination”.

Paulo Coelho

Harvest

“What’s past is prologue”.

William Shakespeare

Riverside

“Men are like rivers; the water is  the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow  here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now  clear, now cold, now dull, now warm”.

Lev Tolstoj

Seasons

“And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief”.

Khalil Gibran

Country House

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler”.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Laundry

“Not all those who wander are lost”.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The quiet sense of something lost

“So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be”.

Alfred Tennyson

Milestones

“Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough…. We have to do what is required”.

Winston Churchill

Meditations

“In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also”.

Friedrich Holderlin