les pieds du pèlerin

 

“You never conquer a mountain.

You just stand on the top a few moments.

Then the wind blows your footprints away.”

 

~ Arlene Blum ~

 

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

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embonpoint

 

“I know my breasts, small as plums, would win no blue ribbons.

But in your hands they tremble and fill with song like plump, white birds.”

 

~ Cecilia Llompart ~

 

Digitally enhanced and colourised image created from an analog black and white photo taken in November 1981.

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smile

 

“Everyone smiles in the same language.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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genése

 

“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”

 

~ Antonio Porchia ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2018.

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further

 

“There is no top.

There are always further heights to reach.”

 

~ Jascha Heifetz ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2016.

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wintertide

 

“He withers all in silence, and in his hand

unclothes the earth and freezes up frail life.”

 

~ William Blake ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2010.

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in September 2016.

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one word poem

 

“There is more poetry in this one word

    than in all of the words ever written…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2016.

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might have made a difference

 

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

 

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in November 1991.

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time

 

“He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely.

He felt time moving through him, as if it were a ghost,

a thing that can haunt a man’s days and nights.”

 

~ Cathie Pelletier ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2014.

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2009.

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sparkle

 

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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

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requital

 

“La vie est trop courte pour boire du mauvais vin.”

“Life is too short to drink bad wine.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in September 1982.

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a bolshevik ballet

 

“Government is an association of men

who do violence to the rest of us.”

 

~ Leo Tolstoy ~

 

Composite image created in 2014.

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doors of deception

 

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

 

~ L. Frank Baum ~

 

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

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ghosts

 

“We both drowned under the waves of words we weren’t saying.”

 

~ Ben Maxfield ~

 

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

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a colour of dust

 

“Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,

Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!”

 

~ Omar Khayyam ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.

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au ralenti

 

“Poetry is prose in slow motion.”

 

~ Nicholson Baker ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by noonie taken in the Rue de l’Arbalète in Paris in August 2017.

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a season

 

“Since we cannot change reality,

let us change the eyes which see reality.”

 

~ Nikos Kazantzakis ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2014.

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a purpose

 

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand

as in what direction we are moving.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in September 2007.

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