POÈTE MAUDIT

 

“What can an eternity of damnation matter

to someone who has felt, if only for a second,

the infinity of delight?”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in February 2007.

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THE ABSURDITY OF LIGHT

 

“give me back all those things i never gave,

so I shan’t be able to take them to my grave,

the burning flames and the booming voice,

all the decisions that were never really a choice…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in England in June 2007.

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CAN’T SEE THE FOREST FOR THE IRONY

 

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”

 

~ E. A. Bucchianeri ~

 

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

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PRIVATE HELL

 

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

 

~ Seneca ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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REMEMBRANCE

 

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

 

~ Antonio Porchia ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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LOVE YOUR WORLD

 

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.

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LE PENSEUR

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

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MAL DU SIÈCLE

 

“Nothin’ to do, Oh poo! Practically blue.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Orléans, France in April 2017.

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FUCKADUCK BLUES

 

“Nonsense is to sense,

as shade to light;

it heightens effect.”

 

~ Frederick Saunders ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken with an analog camera in Virginia Beach, Virginia in April 1990.

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THE ABSURDITY OF IT ALL

 

“…the universe has no sense of charity,

no laws of kindness and love…”

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of an excavated Roman cemetery taken in Germany in September 1987.

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