Many scientists believe that another world is watching us this moment.
We once laughed at the horseless carriage, the aeroplane, the telephone, the electric light,
vitamins, radio, and even television! And now some of us laugh at outer space.
- The Legendary Criswell
Our house is made of glass ... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Politicians are people who, when they see
light at the end of the tunnel, order more tunnel.
- Sir John Quinton
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
- Ben Sweetland
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
- Charles Simic
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
- Henri Frédéric Amiel
Why should there be a lamp in every window?
Because in all this wide city, there is not
enough light. Because the young in the world
are crazy for light and the old are afraid
it will leave them.
- Lola Haskins
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day, he
invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence
of life, contemplation, meditation.
- Jean Arp
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
- Francis Bacon
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton
I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of 'Admin.'
The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint.
It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final
result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in
clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut
fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.
- C.S. Lewis
I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors ... and it's
the shade that defines the light.
- Tori Amos
People recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile,
hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
- Herbert Marcuse
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters
day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
- Gaston Bachelard
The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be
a
cause which operates according to these rules. The rules of navigation never navigated a
ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
- Thomas Reid
Late at night
with the electric light shining,
listening to the sounds of rain outside,
I was reading a book.
On a page of the opened book
a single fly
cast a shadow of loneliness without realizing it.
- Shinkichi Takahashi
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
- Al Boliska
To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by
wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping
through the windows. Facts are the key.
- Julian Huxley
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light
so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
- Maurice Chevalier
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau
Think what a mean and wretched place this world is; that half the time we have to light
a lamp that we may see to live in it. This is half our life. Who would undertake the enterprise
if it were all?
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible
exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.
- Douglas Adams
I shut the heavy Gothic door and retired by the light of the electric bulbs which so cleverly
counterfeited candles, finally switching off the light and sinking on the carved
and canopied four-poster, with the venerable cat in his accustomed place across my feet.
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy,
no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction,
in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives
at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man?
A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
- Joseph Addison
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases
to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived
of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light". -John Ruskin
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether
he could do anything for the famed teacher,
Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.'
Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity.
Until then, one of the best things we can do
for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
John W. Gardner
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean;
a spark of fire helps to give light to the world.
None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service.
Think of this and act.
Hannah More
I will love the light for it shows me the way,
yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino
He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened.
Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;
the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Daylight follows a dark night.
Maasai Proverb
Unless otherwise stated all my lamps
(Lampe, Lampor, Belysning, Hängelampe Hängeleuchte, Deckenlampe, Pendelleuchte) are genuine antique/vintage 2nd-Hand Danish (Dansk, Dänische, Danoise) and Swedish (Svensk) Design items, originally manufactured in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, not modern copies or retro reproductions. The style ranges from classic 50s (often described as mid-century, Atomic) or Danish Modern, with its innovative combination of natural and modern materials including wood, opaque glass and aluminium, through the early 60s (60er) Space Age
inspired use of layered metal and chrome to the later, more outrageous psychedelic, funky style with its use of new plastics and other synthetic materials to produce the familiar range of new and vibrant colours, to the almost universally brown, white and orange coloured cool of the 70s (70er). The most well-known examples come from manufacturers such as Louis Poulsen (Louis Paulsen), Fog Mørup (Fog Morup, Fog Moerup, Fog Mörup), Lyfa, Holmegaard, and Ateljé Lyktan (Atelier Lyktan), but many of the more interesting and unusual come from less well-know manufacturers such as Nordisk Solar Compagni, H.F. Belysning, Markaryd, Voss, AB Ellysett, Dantek, Le Klint, and abo Randers, or from manufacturers outside of Scandinavia such as Thorn Lighting and Merchant Adventurers. Many of the lamps are also produced by famous designers like Poul Henningsen, Arne Jacobsen, Verner Panton, Jørn Utzon (Jürgen Utzon)
Piet Hein and Hans Wegner, others by less familiar but equally interesting and sometimes prolific designers such as Jo Hammerborg, (Johannes Hammerborg) Hans Due, Sophus Fransen, Torsten Thorup, Claus Bonderup, Hans Agne Jacobssen, Preben Fabricus, Anders Pehrson, Bent Karlby, Svend Middelboe, Preben Dahl, Jørgen Gammelgård and Hans Bergström. Most of these designers also worked on furniture and architecture so there is a relationship between these lamps and items produced over the same period by Danish furniture designers and manufacturers like Fritz Hansen etc. There is also a clear inter-relationship between these designs and similar lamps and other furniture produced in countries such
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MAYAKOVSKI:
AT THE TOP OF MY VOICE
My verse will reach you
across the peaks of ages,
over the heads
of governments and poets.
My verse
will reach you
not as an arrow
in a cupid-lyred chase,
not as a worn penny
reaches a numismatist,
not as the light of dead star reaches you.
My verse
with labor
will break the mountain chain of years,
and will present itself
ponderous,
crude,
tangible,
as an aqueduct,
by slaves of Rome
constructed,
enters into our days.
When in mounds of books,
where verse lies buried,
you discover by chance the iron filings of lines,
touch them
with respect,
as you would
some antique
yet awesome weapon.
Unless otherwise stated all my lamps
(Lampe, Lampor, Belysning, Hängelampe Hängeleuchte, Deckenlampe, Pendelleuchte) are genuine antique/vintage 2nd-Hand Danish (Dansk, Dänische, Danoise) and Swedish (Svensk) Design items, originally manufactured in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, not modern copies or retro reproductions. The style ranges from classic 50s (often described as mid-century, Atomic) or Danish Modern, with its innovative combination of natural and modern materials including wood, opaque glass and aluminium, through the early 60s (60er) Space Age
inspired use of layered metal and chrome to the later, more outrageous psychedelic, funky style with its use of new plastics and other synthetic materials to produce the familiar range of new and vibrant colours, to the almost universally brown, white and orange coloured cool of the 70s (70er). The most well-known examples come from manufacturers such as Louis Poulsen (Louis Paulsen), Fog Mørup (Fog Morup, Fog Moerup, Fog Mörup), Lyfa, Holmegaard, and Ateljé Lyktan (Atelier Lyktan), but many of the more interesting and unusual come from less well-know manufacturers such as Nordisk Solar Compagni, H.F. Belysning, Markaryd, Voss, AB Ellysett, Dantek, Le Klint, and abo Randers, or from manufacturers outside of Scandinavia such as Thorn Lighting and Merchant Adventurers. Many of the lamps are also produced by famous designers like Poul Henningsen, Arne Jacobsen, Verner Panton, Jørn Utzon (Jürgen Utzon)
Piet Hein and Hans Wegner, others by less familiar but equally interesting and sometimes prolific designers such as Jo Hammerborg, (Johannes Hammerborg) Hans Due, Sophus Fransen, Torsten Thorup, Claus Bonderup, Hans Agne Jacobssen, Preben Fabricus, Anders Pehrson, Bent Karlby, Svend Middelboe, Preben Dahl, Jørgen Gammelgård and Hans Bergström. Most of these designers also worked on furniture and architecture so there is a relationship between these lamps and items produced over the same period by Danish furniture designers and manufacturers like Fritz Hansen etc. There is also a clear inter-relationship between these designs and similar lamps and other furniture produced in countries such
as