When he made his British debut in the middle of the night at the Isle of Wight festival in 1970, he introduced So Long, Marianne with the following plaintive words: “I wrote this for Marianne. I hope she’s here; maybe she’s here. I hope she’s here. Marianne …”

katy moukakou Cohen and his Marianne💞

Come over to the window, my little darling I'd like to try to read your palm I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy Before I let you take me home 🖤 Now so long, Marianne It's time that we began to laugh And cry and cry and laugh about it all again 🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️

Le Havre, 1980 • Gilbert Fastenaekens •

Man has not changed much since the foundation of the world. He will not change much in the future. Fusao Hayashi, 'Prison Record'

'Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you;' — The Dry Salvages, published #OTD 1941

📷 Christer Strömholm. Pigalle 1956. Paname

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Photographer Bruce Davidson was born OTD in 1933.

Claude Monet's sunrises and sunsets

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Janine Niépce. Les arcades de la rue de Rivoli c.1950. Paris

Serenade in den blauen Mond weiche Nacht ist wie ein blauer Traum deine Hand rührt leise meine Friederike Mayröcker; ©️ Robert Doisneau

Egon Schiele “Autumn is eating a leaf from my hand: we are friends. We are picking time out of a nut, we teach it to run: and time rushes back to its shell.” —Paul Celan “Corona”

Jack Kerouac’s great book ‘On the Road’ was published on this day In 1957. “’I read ‘On the Road’ in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else’s.” —Bob Dylan

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