At the Intersection of Theology, Nature, and the Arts
In celebration of all that blossoms in May, I’m posting paintings by the American Impressionist Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939) alongside “flowery” quotes from Emerson, O’Keefe, Okakura and Heine along with a Tennyson poem punctuated by a listening larkspur and a whispering lily. “The earth laughs in flowers.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nobody sees a flower – …
"The swan, like the soul of the poet, by the dull world is ill understood." -- Heinrich Heine *** “There’s a double beauty whenever a swan swims on a lake with her double thereon." -- Thomas Hood “The stately-sailing swan, Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale; And arching proud his neck, with oary feet …
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