TALK TALK

 

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

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WORDS LIKE CLAY

 

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems

to the absurdity of not writing poems.”

 

~ Wisława Szymborska ~

 

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PURPLE SHROOM

 

“And you, whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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CREAM

 

“I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digital art created in March 2018.

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MY MOTHER’S ASHES

 

“Pulvis et umbra sumus.”

“We are dust and shadows.”

 

~ Horace ~

 

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IN THE KEY OF COME HITHER…

 

“Our work is not to become unique. We are unique.

Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure

and to allow the inner whisper that says

“come hither” to be reason enough to go.”

 

~ Vironika Tugaleva ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

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PORTAILS PARALLÈLES

 

“What if, instead of a parallel universe,

there’s a perpendicular universe?”

 

~ Robert Breault ~

 

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THE MOON STARES DOWN

 

“Before the winter fire,

I will still be dreaming,

I have no thought of time.”

 

~ Sandy Denny ~

 

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POUR L’AMOUR DES LIVRES

 

“It is what you read when you don’t have to

that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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SOOTHE A SAVAGE BREAST

 

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,

To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

 

~ William Congreve ~

 

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IN THE FLICKERING LIGHT

 

“If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how

people were depicted inside nature, not outside it.

It was a kind of dream time…”

 

~ Gregory Colbert ~

 

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BUMBLE

 

“Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive

the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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SING

 

“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody,

it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.”

 

~ Janis Joplin ~

 

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TWO BECOME ONE BECOMES TWO

 

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

A dream you dream together is reality.”

 

~ Yoko Ono ~

 

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GRIBBLES

 

“Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:

Dulce est desipere in loco.”

“Mingle a little folly with your wisdom;

a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.”

 

~ Horace ~

 

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LES RIDEAUX

 

“The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,

and say what thou seest yond.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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HERMAPHRODITE

 

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

 

~ Milan Kundera ~

 

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LE CŒUR D’HARLEQUIN

 

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

 

~ Blaise Pascal ~

 

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TWENTY FOUR SEVEN

 

“The average Smartphone user checks

his or her device every six and a half minutes.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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STILL DELUDED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

 

“A rational army would run away.” 

 

~ Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu ~

 

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