an absence of luminosity

 

“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.”

 

~ Louis Daguerre ~

 

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shine a light

 

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

 

~ Arlo Guthrie ~

 

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towards the light

 

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

 

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

 

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childhood’s end

 

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

 

~ Ken Hill ~

 

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a matter of attraction

 

“A living speck – the merest dab of life – capable of pleasure and pain,

     is far more interesting to me than all the immensities of mere matter.”

 

~ Jean Henri Fabre ~

 

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holey heavens

 

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

 

~ Judy Garland ~

 

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paradox three – excerpt

 

“Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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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 ~

 

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obscured by clouds

 

“I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.”

 

~ A.E. Housman ~

 

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canvas

 

“How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!”

 

~ A. A. Milne ~

 

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bisous

 

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

 

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rainbows

 

“Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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same ol’ moon

 

“Lend me thy pen to write a word in the moonlight…”

 

~ from a French folk song ~

 

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the demons are delighted

 

“He who is neither human nor demon

is not the dawn nor the dusk.”

 

~ Kohta Hirano ~

 

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wordless

 

“I have no words for my reality.”

 

~ Max Frisch ~

 

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she shines

 

“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it, but you can feel it.”

 

~ Nicholas Sparks ~

 

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long hard cold dark lonely winter

 

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,

Thou art not so unkind, as Man’s Ingratitude…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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dreams fading

 

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who

can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees

the dawn before the rest of the world.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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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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NO ROOM FOR RAINBOWS

 

“The color of truth is gray.”

 

~ Andre Gide ~

 

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