Sun in an Empty Room by Edward Hopper (1963).
(click image for desktop wallpaper).
no loneliness, space
Morris to New York City
no space, loneliness
tags: haiku, Edward Hopper, Empty room
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New York Movie
by Edward Hopper, 1939.
Oil on canvas (The Museum of Modern Art, New York City).
Rough times, my peeps, rough times.
You all sit together in darkness while I stand hidden in bright light,
listening to you enjoy the unfolding story.
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tags: window, Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland, image of the day
Akkuna.
This window reminds me of Edward Hopper's artwork.
Photographed on Suomenlinna on Kalevalapaäivä (Kalevala Day).
This is one of my favorite places to visit in Helsinki, Finland.
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Lost in a strange city
Nowhere to turn
Far cry from the streets that
I came from
It can get lonely
When you're traveling hard
But you can even be lonely
Standing in your own back yard
Nobody knows the existential dread
Of the things that go on inside
Someone else's head
Whether it be trivial
Or something that Dante said
But, baby, nobody knows the meaning of loneliness
No matter how well you know someone
You can only ever guess
How can you ever really know somebody else?
It takes more than a lifetime
Just to get to know yourself
Nobody knows the meaning of loneliness
I have to say a word about solitude
For the soul it sometimes they say can be good
And I'm partial to it myself, well, I must confess
Nobody knows the meaning of loneliness
Well, there's Sartre and Camus, Nietzsche and Hesse
If you dig deep enough
You gonna end up in distress
And no one escapes having to live life under duress
And no one escapes the meaning of loneliness
Well, they say keep it simple when it gets to be a mess
And fame and fortune
Never brought anyone happiness
I must be lucky
Some of my friends think that I'm really blessed
Nobody knows the meaning of loneliness
No, no, no, no, nobody knows the meaning of loneliness
No, no, no, nobody knows the meaning of loneliness
Nobody knows the meaning of loneliness
- Van Morrison