One Unfound Seeker

Mauve blames me for saying, I’m an artist – which I won’t take back, because those words naturally imply always seeking without ever fully finding. It’s the exact opposite of saying, ‘I know it already, I’ve already found it’. To the best of my knowledge, those words mean ‘I seek, I pursue, my heart is in it’. 

--Vincent van Gogh, May 7, 1882

One Milky River

 She weaves and ends no pattern to day

                                Milky way girl

and the heavy ox pulls and pulls

to the end of the day no pattern

Via lactea clear and shallow

far from each other

                                one wide river to cross

--Anonymous Han dynasty poet, translated by Ezra Pound