america hurts

 

“As I say, it is perhaps easier to love America passionately,

when you look at it through the wrong end of a

telescope than when you are right there.

When you are actually in America, America hurts.”

 

~ D.H. Lawrence ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.

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where the time goes

 

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.”

 

~ Henry Austin Dobson ~

 

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skeletons

 

“Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old,

Their beards of icicles and snow…”

 

~ Charles duc d’Orléans ~

 

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new skin for old

 

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”

 

~ William Butler Yeats ~

 

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libére ton esprit

 

“There is nothing more powerful and nothing more

dangerously beautiful than a free mind.”

 

~ Bryant McGill ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

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reboot required

 

“The two most common elements in the universe

are hydrogen and stupidity.”

 

~ Harlan Ellison ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of Ischia, Italy in June 1996.

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carpe diem

 

“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday.

Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

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the weight

 

“Man’s inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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as if they never were

 

“The earth doesn’t care about humanity,

but humanity had better start caring about the earth.”

 

~ Erik Barth ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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she would dream again

 

“A medium suitable for me does not exist yet, unless I invent it.”

 

~ William S. Burroughs ~

 

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laughing

 

“Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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rainbow’s end

 

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2015.

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mare nostrum

 

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα

καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ

νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,

ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

 

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,

it is midnight,

time is passing,

but I sleep alone.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken near the island of Thera (Santorini) in 1992.

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ready to embrace it

 

“Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes,

and pompous in the grave.”

 

~ Thomas Browne ~

 

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aftertaste

 

“A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives

   a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.”

 

~ David Mitchell ~

 

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touching

 

“The flames you keep touching when you’re young,

you keep right ahead on touching when you’re older.”

 

~ Will Walton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the mid 1980’s.

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poppies

 

“Through the dancing poppies stole

    a breeze most softly lulling to my soul…”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

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melancholie

 

“Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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nothing

 

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode

in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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

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blood moon

 

“The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone.”

 

~ Tom Waits ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of an eclipse taken in March 2007.

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