Goethe

All of these photos I took while walking just through the fields outside the house.






über allen Gipfeln
ist Ruh,
in allen Wipfeln
spürest du
kaum einen Hauch.
Die Vögel schweigen im Walde.
Warte nur, balde
ruhest du auch.
--Goethe

(On all hilltops
There is peace,
In all treetops
You will hear
Hardly a breath.
Birds in the woods are silent.
Just wait, soon
You too will rest.)

'The purpose of poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.'
--Milan Kundera, Immortality