秋登蘭山寄張五 – 孟浩然

 

北山白雲裏     隱者自怡悅 

相望試登高     心隨雁飛滅  

愁因薄暮起     興是清秋發 

時見歸村人     沙行渡頭歇

天邊樹若薺     江畔洲如月 

何當載酒來     共醉重陽節

 

without deliberation - Walt Whitman

 

The secret of it all is to write in a gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment - to put things down without deliberation - without worrying about their style, without waiting for a fit time or place……No prepared picture, no elaborated poem, no after-narrative, could be what the thing itself is.

 

                                                                        

                                                                                 -   Walt Whitman, 1890

craved to seize the whole essence - Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

 

 

                                            -  Henri Cartier-Bresson, “ The Decisive Moment “