Walk on Air
So
walk on air
against
your
better judgement.
text: Seamus Heaney 1939-2013
the famous Irish poet used this phrase in his 1995 Nobel Prize lecture
this is also the epitaph inscribed on his gravestone.
The line is taken from the final stanza of The Gravel Walks.
photos : Syncopath, Scharmützelsee, Branderburg, 2015
more about this line:
Historian Eugene Kielt: "It is a beautiful line, very inspirational. It is about going for it.
We are naturally cautious and sometimes someone should throw caution to the wind.
It is about keeping your feet on the ground but looking up as well. It is about risk taking and not being inhibited, losing your inhibitions."