Yves Montand / Les Feuilles Mortes

Yves Montand, Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves). A voice with no need of orchestra...

There are so many autumn leaves blowing on the wind in the films of Sirk too...

Music: Joseph Kosma

Lyrics: Jacques Prévert

the window

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The most wonderful and magical window I've ever seen in my life is in All That Heaven Allows. It's maybe the first thing that comes to my mind once I remember the film.

who are you

Martinique, André Kértész
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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.

Emily Dickinson

breakfast time

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Before Breakfast

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Believing six things to be wrong before our breakfast has been made occurs when coffee isn’t strong and toast is lacking marmalade. Opinions wrongly circulated may be endured by brains refreshed by coffee freshly percolated, and toast with marmalade that’s echt. Gershon Hepner

_____________ Alice laughed: “There's no use trying, ” she said; “one can't believe impossible things.” ”I daresay you haven't had much practice, ” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Alice in Wonderland.

cat people

Mark Twain
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. ... all American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. The Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway

le temps des cerises

Summer, Giuseppe Arcimboldo
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summer ends,
let's remember now
the time of cherries