As silent as a mirror is believed…


Posted on January 11th, by Birdie in Awesome, Birdie Loves, Fashion and Style. No Comments December 14, 2012

Again, I found a bunch of lovely vintage inspiration in the Etsy today (and Taste Test is addicting!) – probably because I spend so much time sifting through antiquities (like glass vintage apothecary bottles), looking for oddities and curios.

So I made this treasury (click the pic to go to the Treasury Page…)

Relentless Caper - Etsy Treasury

Relentless Caper – Etsy Treasury

Inspired by this:

As silent as a mirror is believed
Realities plunge in silence by . . .I am not ready for repentance;
Nor to match regrets. For the moth
Bends no more than the still
Imploring flame. And tremorous
In the white falling flakes
Kisses are,–
The only worth all granting.

It is to be learned–
This cleaving and this burning,
But only by the one who
Spends out himself again.

Twice and twice
(Again the smoking souvenir,
Bleeding eidolon!) and yet again.
Until the bright logic is won
Unwhispering as a mirror
Is believed.

Then, drop by caustic drop, a perfect cry
Shall string some constant harmony,–
Relentless caper for all those who step
The legend of their youth into the noon.

Legend, by Harold Hart Crane

I’m surrounded by the lore of all things old – the calling of dusty books and antiquities.  Today’s inspiration is brought to you by that, and the letter B.

 





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