life’s blood

 

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

 

~ Alison Prince ~

 

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poetree

 

“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”

 

~ Jean Cocteau ~

 

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spice

 

“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”

 

~ Joan Aiken ~

 

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vanishing footprints

 

“I dwell in a lonely house I know that vanished many a summer ago.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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the stolen years

 

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

 

~ Christopher Paolini ~

 

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woman

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

 

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sacrilege

 

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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blabberwockey

 

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

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tree of life

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

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l’extase de l’insomnie

 

“Sleeping is no mean art:

for its sake one must stay awake all day.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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la vie

 

“We all have two lives. The second one starts

when we realize we only have one.”

 

~ Tom Hiddleston ~

 

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CRÉER C’EST SE SOUVENIR

 

“Créer c’est se souvenir…”

“To create is to remember…”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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HAMSTER WHEEL

 

“They said, congratulations you got what it takes.

They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”

 

~ Bob Dylan ~

 

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STEP INTO THE DARKNESS

 

“It is in the darkness that one finds the light.”

 

~ Meister Eckhart ~

 

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WORDSMITH

 

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,

but what we are unable to say.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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A GRAVITY OF LANGUAGE

 

Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

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FLIGHTS OF FANCY

 

“Some might think that the creativity, imagination,

and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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THE PAINTER

 

“Painting is silent poetry.”

 

~ Plutarch ~

 

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LEGACY

 

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

 

~ Nelson Henderson ~

 

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LINE, FORM AND BEAUTY

 

“I have nature and art and poetry,

and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

 

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

 

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