"How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing." --Duane Michals

21st February 2012

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“ When I see the sea once morewill the sea have seen or not seen me ? Why do the waves ask methe same questions I ask them ? And why do they strike the rockwith so much wasted passion ? Don’t they get tired of repeatingtheir declaration to the sand ? ” —Pablo Neruda 

“

When I see the sea once more
will the sea have seen or not seen me ?

Why do the waves ask me
the same questions I ask them ?

And why do they strike the rock
with so much wasted passion ?

Don’t they get tired of repeating
their declaration to the sand ?

”

—Pablo Neruda 

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