Posts Tagged With: Dreams

on the cusp

 

“I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.”

 

~ Audre Lorde ~

 

000 on the cusp

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.


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soothe a savage breast

 

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,
To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

 

~ William Congreve ~

 

000 soothe a savage breast 2

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


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


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in those moments

 

“It’s one thing to fall in love.
It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you,
and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”

 

~ David Levithan ~

 

000 in those moments

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting by C.H. taken in April 2023.


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the distance of myth

 

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

000 the distance of myth 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the summer of 1977.


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lessons in the half light

 

“We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust…”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

 

000 lessons in the half light 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Summer 2004.


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the tenebrosity of dream

 

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

 

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

 

000 the tenebrosity of dream 2

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


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dreamcanvas

 

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,
life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

 

~ Langston Hughes ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in June 2006.


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red

 

“Yet would we die as some have done,
beating a way for the rising sun.”

 

~ Arna Bontemps ~

 

000 red

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2003.


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a smile

 

“Look back, and smile on perils past.”

 

~ Walter Scott ~

 

000 a smile 1

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


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shine a light

 

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

 

~ Arlo Guthrie ~

 

000 shine a light 1

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


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thin around cause

 

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause
and dense around the effect.”

 

~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~

 

000 thin around cause 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the Seine taken in Paris in May 2011.


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the performance

 

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

 

~ Noel Coward ~

 

000 the performance 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2021.


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


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


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dark nuances dance

 

“It is always a poet’s winter.”

 

~ Kate Braverman ~

 

000 dark nuances dance

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


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she would dream again

 

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

 

~ William S. Burroughs ~

 

000 she would dream again

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2022.


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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 ~

 

000 mare nostrum 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken near the island of Thera (Santorini) in 1992.


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aftertaste

 

“A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives
   a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.”

 

~ David Mitchell ~

 

000 aftertaste 1

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


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pourboire

 

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

 

~ Dee Waldeck ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1982.


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