The shadow is that place between darkness and light.

We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty. –  Junichiro Tanizaki

The lovliest things in life are but shadows, and they come and go, and change and fade away…” – Charles Dickens 

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow.
– T. S. Eliot

“… there are shadows because there are hills. “
–  E.M.Forster, Room with a View

A shadow on the wall
boughs stirred by the noonday wind
that’s enough earth
and for the eye
enough celestial participation.
– Gottfried Benn
Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.
– Sylvia Plath

The Sun never knew how wonderful it was
until it fell on the wall of a building.
Louis Kahn, Architect
quoted in forward of In Praise of Shadows,  Junichiro Tanizaki

There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.
–  Jo Walton

Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form.
The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
– Leonardo da Vinci

Twilight
Shards of light scatter indiscriminately
Half light at dusk yearns to remain
but is satisfied
by tomorrow’s promise
– Kay Earle

From These Hands, A Journey Along the Coffee Trail  has just been released by Phaidon Press. From the foothills of the Andes to the slopes of Kilimanjaro, the images document the realities of life for the people working at the source of this drink which millions of people enjoy every day – coffee.

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