primordial vagabond notes

 

“It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.”

 

~ Miles Davis ~

 

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a gravity of language

 

“Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

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

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she

 

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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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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the performance

 

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

 

~ Noel Coward ~

 

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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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le peintre

 

“I do not seek. I find.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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bandora’s pox

 

“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty!

What a monster…what a contradiction, what a prodigy.”

 

~ Blaise Pascal ~

 

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ladder to the moon

 

“That I could clamber to the frozen moon.

And draw the ladder after me.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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que sais-je?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

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life’s blood

 

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

 

~ Alison Prince ~

 

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

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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) ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in May 2017.

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020 of a chondrite meteorite that was found in Morocco in 2019.

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020 of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980.

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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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