Posts Tagged With: Books

TIMELESS TOMES

Posted on 14/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“So many books, so little time.”

~ Frank Zappa ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Beauty, Books, Bookshelves, Candles, Daylight, Digital Imagery, Electricity, Energy, Evolution, Existence, Future, Human Endeavor, Ideas, Knowledge, Lifeblood, Literature, Music, Opinions, Past, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Technology, Time Machines | 1 Comment

A DIME A DOZEN

Posted on 16/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“…i have been dealing with these kinds

of conversations for decades,

only the names of the instruments

have been changed to protect the innocent…”

~ nightpoet ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Café de Flore in Paris in July 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Artist, Bagpipes, Banjo, Books, Café de Flore, Digital Imagery, Musician, Painter, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poet, Poetry, Sculptor, Vernissage, Wine, Words | 1 Comment

PURE POETRY

Posted on 09/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.”

~ Natalie Clifford Barney ~

Image processed from a digitally created oil painting made in March 2001.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Books, Ceiling, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fingers, Hints, Lines, Moustaches, Notes, Parrots, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sensuous, Shoulder, Siren, Song, Squints, Stars | 1 Comment

NEITHER HERE NOR THERE

Posted on 08/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“The more powerful and original a mind,

the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

~ Aldous Huxley ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bastille, Books, Bookshelves, Digital Imagery, Dust, Elysium, Future, Here, History, Hooks, Museum, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Poetry, Sanctuary, Skeletons, Solitude, There, Tomes | 1 Comment

READ THEM THEIR RIGHTS

Posted on 19/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool,

and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”

~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by C+S taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Bedded, Books, Digital Imagery, Finality, Fools, Incoherent, Jewels, Life, Night, Old, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Read, Reality, Rights, Rules, Sauce, Smile, Sounds, Spools, Street Art, Style | 1 Comment

I GOT MY EYE ON YOU

Posted on 02/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”

~ Sigmund Freud ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Books, Bookstore, Digital Imagery, Eye, Fat, Happy, Life, Living Room, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Twinkle, Window | 1 Comment

SHARDS OF LIGHT

Posted on 30/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“A million candles burning for the love that never came,

you want it darker, we kill the flame…”

~ Leonard Cohen ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apathy, Books, Candles, Creativity, Darkness, Desolation, Enlightenment, Harbinger, Human, Ignorance, Imagination, Ink, Life, Lifeblood, Light, Lines, Love, Luminosity, Memories, Mirror, Night, Parchment, Paris, Passion, Past, Patience, Photography, Poetry, Read, Reality, Seeds, Shards, Street Art, Time, Wilderness | 1 Comment

ONLY TO READ

Posted on 20/07/2019 by Nightpoet

“Fill your house with stacks of books,

in all the crannies and all the nooks.”

~ Dr. Seuss ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absorb, Books, Bookshelves, Digest, Digital Imagery, Dissect, Halls, Imagination, Library, Life, Love, Lover, Pages, Paris, Passion, Photography, Piles, Poetry, Read, Rooms, Stacks, Staircases, Thirst, Time | 2 Comments

A CHILD’S MIND IS LIKE CLAY

Posted on 05/06/2019 by Nightpoet

“To learn to read is to light a fire.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Books, Clay, Digital Imagery, Heart, Literature, Love, Memories, Mind, Paris, Photography, Poetry, reading, Wonder | 1 Comment

THE BEAUTY OF A BOOK

Posted on 30/05/2019 by Nightpoet

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”

~ Henry Miller ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Beauty, Bond, Books, Digital Imagery, Form, Friend, Imagination, Life, Literature, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Power, Sharing, Substance | 2 Comments

IMMORTALITY

Posted on 07/05/2019 by Nightpoet

“A book is the only immortality.”

~ Rufus Choate ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Black Magic, Books, Darkness, Death, Elixirs, Future, Heart, History, Immortality, Incantations, Life, Literature, Love, Memory, Minds, Pages, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potions, Spells, Time, Treasure, Wisdom | 1 Comment

THE VIEW FROM HERE WITH FRINGE

Posted on 10/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“What if when you die, they ask “How was heaven?”

~ Anonymous ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Books, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Frames, Frazzle, Fringe, Future, Memories, Moon, Music, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poker Face, Spring, Stars, Tapestry, Time, Trees, Twilight, View, Walls, Windows | 1 Comment

TOO MANY BOOKS

Posted on 27/02/2019 by Nightpoet

“Psychopathia librorum….

I surround myself with the printed word.”

~ Sven Birkerts ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Amuse, Beauty, Books, Digital Imagery, Dust, Entertain, Future, History, Knowledge, Learning, Literature, Memories, Pages, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Shelves, Think, Time, Time Machine | 3 Comments

THE BEAUTY OF BOOKS

Posted on 04/11/2018 by Nightpoet

“So many books, so little time.”

~ Frank Zappa ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting by Wickenhäuser taken in November 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Books, Child, Digital Imagery, Generations, Gift, Information, Knowledge, Learning, Legacy, Life, Literature, Love, Mind, Past, Photography, Poetry, Scrolls, Tablets, Time, Wisdom | 8 Comments

POUR L’AMOUR DES LIVRES

Posted on 17/06/2018 by Nightpoet

“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 ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Books, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Knowledge, Library, Literature, Love, Pages, Passion, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Secrets, Volumes | 1 Comment

LE LIVRE

Posted on 20/04/2018 by Nightpoet

“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 ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a bas-relief “Le Livre” (1925) by Antoine Bourdelle taken in Paris in May 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Books, Digital Imagery, Experiences, Food, Grass, Ideas, Intellect, Knowledge, Language, Library, Music, Pages, Paris, Perspectives, Photography, Poetry, reading, Senses, Sex, Stimulation, Thoughts, Wine | 1 Comment

SO MANY BOOKS

Posted on 11/08/2017 by Nightpoet

“Good friends, good books

and a sleepy conscience:

this is the ideal life.”

~ Mark Twain ~

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

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abibliophobia, Books, Bookshops, Digital Imagery, Life, Literature, Love, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, reading | 1 Comment

THE NEXT THING

Posted on 29/04/2017 by Nightpoet

“Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt,

verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.”

“Where they burn books,

in the end they will also burn people.”

~ Heinrich Heine ~

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

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics | Tags: Books, Censorship, Digital Imagery, Fear, Hate, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Suppression | 1 Comment

LE VISAGE

Posted on 09/01/2017 by Nightpoet

“Pleasure is the flower that passes;

remembrance, the lasting perfume.”

~ Jean de Boufflers ~

Digital image created in January 2017.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Beach, Books, Bread, Childhood, Culture, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Heart, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 1 Comment

TWIST OF FATE

Posted on 30/03/2016 by Nightpoet

“A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.”

~ Umberto Eco ~

The book is from my personal collection. Photos taken in March 2016.

Categories: History, Literature, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Books, History, Libraries, Literature, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Leave a comment

Posts Tagged With: Books

“So many books, so little time.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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“…i have been dealing with these kinds

of conversations for decades,

only the names of the instruments

have been changed to protect the innocent…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The more powerful and original a mind,

the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool,

and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A million candles burning for the love that never came,

you want it darker, we kill the flame…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Fill your house with stacks of books,

in all the crannies and all the nooks.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“To learn to read is to light a fire.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A book is the only immortality.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What if when you die, they ask “How was heaven?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Psychopathia librorum….

I surround myself with the printed word.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“So many books, so little time.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is what you read

when you don’t have to

that determines what you will be

when you can’t help it.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

that determines what you will be

when you can’t help it.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Good friends, good books

and a sleepy conscience:

this is the ideal life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt,

verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.”

“Where they burn books,

in the end they will also burn people.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Pleasure is the flower that passes;

remembrance, the lasting perfume.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.”

~ Umberto Eco ~

SPREAD THE WORD: