shine a light

 

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

 

~ Arlo Guthrie ~

 

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thin around cause

 

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

 

~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~

 

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the performance

 

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

 

~ Noel Coward ~

 

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unreality

 

“I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing

     is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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draws the bow

 

“After silence, that which comes nearest

     to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

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dark nuances dance

 

“It is always a poet’s winter.”

 

~ Kate Braverman ~

 

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she would dream again

 

“A medium suitable for me does not exist yet, unless I invent it.”

 

~ William S. Burroughs ~

 

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mare nostrum

 

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα

καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ

νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,

ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

 

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,

it is midnight,

time is passing,

but I sleep alone.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

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aftertaste

 

“A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives

   a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.”

 

~ David Mitchell ~

 

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pourboire

 

“Take time out for yourself and love the person in the mirror.”

 

~ Dee Waldeck ~

 

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last summer’s leaves

 

“Wild is the music of autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”

 

~ William Wordsworth ~

 

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the running man

 

“All I want in this life are three…a moonlit beach

on the starlit sea, a breath of opium, and thee.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

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bisous

 

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of lipstick kisses left on Oscar Wilde’s grave in Paris in August 2015.

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le cadeau

 

“We are always the same age inside.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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even slower

 

“When we remember we are all mad,

the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

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golden fleece

 

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

 

~ Anne Sexton ~

 

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light shines down

 

“When you possess light within, you see it externally.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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the nature of the beast within

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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

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soft serendipity

 

“Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle

and discovering a farmer’s daughter.”

 

~ Julius H. Comroe, Jr. ~

 

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

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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 ~

 

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