L'amour

"S'il y a un art,

il est l'expression de l'amour.

S'il y a un chemin,

c'est d'avancer en aimant.

S'il y a une connaissance,

c'est en aimant qu'elle viendra.

S'il y a un ciel,

c'est l' Aimé qui l'habite.

S'il y a une vie,

c'est d'aimer l'amour.

S'il y a une réalité, elle est amour."

Luis Ansa

Love

 

"Love means to learn to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
Without knowing it, from various ills."

 Czesław Miłosz

 https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/08/16/czeslaw-milosz-love/

 

Sintra, Palácio da Pena num dia de Dezembro de 2019

There’s a palace in the sky,
Peacefully drifting,
Swaying in the breeze.
(G. Spelman)

Palácio da Vila, Sintra, há quase dois anos, em Agosto de 2020

"I pray for a palace of dreams and memories
With stones and pillars of mementos"
(W. Milton)

 

Parque do Palácio de Monserrate no entardecer de um dia de Inverno muitos anos atrás

A walk in a Park birds chirping all round

A Fairytale Palace A Queen and a Prince

Ericeira num dia de Inverno (um toque de frescura no dia de hoje em que a Ericeira está com 37 graus)

"The sun and sand go hand in hand
The sound of constant waves
There's a smell of salt in the air
The ocean is seen through a haze"
(M. Matheny)

 

Janela no Palácio de Monserrate, Sintra

"One window is enough for me
A window on to the moment of awareness and seeing and silence"
(F. Farrokhzad)

 

Praia Grande, Sintra, ontem ao entardecer

"Standing, breeze lightly blowing,
I look around, look far, look wide,
Look to the sky, to the sand,
And to the sea."
(Oolong)

 

Castelo dos Mouros visto da correnteza

"The Castle of Moors on the highest peak
Pronounces the modesty of Muslim kings"
(M. Yamin)

 

 

Nuvens dançando com a serra

"Distant drums they summon somnolent feet
To walk on clouds stripped bare of doubts that seethe
Should I abandon my prairie nest on morning's sweet dew
To climb the mountain and dance the rhapsody with you?"

(D. Meneses)

 

 

Infinite ocean near Cabo da Roca, Sintra

"I am a rock on the shore

of the magnificent ocean

millions of years

by the magnificent ocean

and millions more

before I am worn to sand

worn to a grain of sand

by the magnificent healing ocean"

(L.Brown) 

 

 

Palácio de Monserrate under the blue sky over the clouds

"There are no good kings

 Only beautiful palaces"

 (Kaveh Akbar) 

 

Waves at Sintra coast

"In the sea that eats the land at home,
Eats the whole land at home."

(Kofi Awoonor)

 

Azenhas do Mar, Sintra

"Are you alive?

I touch you.

You quiver like a sea-fish.

I cover you with my net.

What are you—banded one?"

(The Pool, H. Doolittle)

Sunset at Palácio Nacional de Sintra

"And then, the sacrament of waiting began

The sunrise and sunset watched with

Tenderness, clothing her with silhouettes"

(M. Wiederkehr)

 

Sintra, Palácio, Castelo, by night

"We grow accustomed to the Dark
When light is put away
As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp
To witness her Goodbye"

(E. Dickinson)

 

Praia do Magoito, Sintra

 "A sea secreting diamonds, gold, silver, bronze…"

(C. Jessop)

 

Serra de Sintra

"All the birds have flown up and gone;
A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
We never tire of looking at each other -
Only the mountain and I."

(Li Bai) 

 

Sintra morning

"This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival."

(Rumi)

 

 

Castelo dos Mouros by night and moon

" ... Therefore let the moon
Shine on thee in thy solitary walk"

 (W. Wordsworth)