There will be always be competition between the two art forms of writing and pictures, both sides providing a formidable foe to the other. While writers use words to provide an image to the reader, the picture taker uses their image to provide words to the viewer. Despite writers' uncanny ability to paint with words, I feel an image such as this does a better job by simply being itself: a beautiful sunrise/sunset. Although the likes of Chaucer and Shakespeare could implant this picture in your imagination with prose and poetry, wouldn't you rather see it for yourself and make your own interpretation of what you're viewing? The battle will wage on, with no side being the outright victor in this war of attrition. It will only sway back and forth from one to the other until the sands of time are spent and gone, with no one left to judge.
Special thanks to Linds for the picture!
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