"Begin at the beginning, 
and go on till you come to the end: 

then stop."

~ The King of Hearts

 

 

 

 

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things 

hidden in the shadow of natural ones...

and serving to demonstrate as real 

the things that are not. 

~ Cennino Cennini

                                     

When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud

And goes down burning into the gulf below,

No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud

At what has happened. Birds, at least must know

It is the change to darkness in the sky.

Murmuring something quiet in her breast,

One bird begins to close a faded eye;

Or overtaken too far from his nest,

Hurrying low above the grove, some waif

Swoops just in time to his remembered tree.

~ Robert Frost

Red, red, red the shine
Of the splendour in the west,
Glowing through the ranks of pine

~ Henry van Dyke