To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
—-William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
Mural, Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night.
—-William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears…in…rain. Time to die.
—-Roy Batty, Blade Runner
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Mural, Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
Mural, covered by “For Rent” sign
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
“When Armageddon takes place, parking is going to be a major problem.”
― J.G. Ballard, Millennium People
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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Mural, Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
If you see me walking down the street
And I start to cry each time we meet
Walk on by, walk on by
—-lyrics by Hal David
Deel Ellum
Dallas, Texas
Make believe
That you don’t see the tears
Just let me grieve
In private ’cause each time I see you
I break down and cry
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Walk on by, walk on by
Foolish pride
Is all that I have left
So let me hide
The tears and the sadness you gave me
When you said goodbye
“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else’s heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Mural
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato
Mural of Madison King
behind cars from the Invasion Car Show
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
Mural of Madison King, by Frank Campagna
I’ve been a fan of Madison King for a while now and was glad that Frank Campagna chose her for one of the murals in Deep Ellum.
Madison King at the first Patio Session
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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Invasion car show
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
“I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems
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Mural on Main Street,
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
Mural by Travis Haas
Part of the 42 Murals Project
You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
—-John Singer Sargent
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texa
Bill Chance 