Landscape with the Fall of Icarus According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring

A farmer was ploughing his field

The whole pageantry of the sun forbade our sight of it.

But for a moment and for a particular story we catch it all the shadowed waves from awe-inducing.

the man who was falling, a wheelbarrow toppled near the water.

The rest of us stand still—a formall light.

In the architecture of luck what life may yet flow!

  • William Carlos Williams