slow burning ember

 

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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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 ~

 

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like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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the dark attic of forgotten lives

 

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

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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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PISS POT PHILOSOPHY

 

“Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions:

the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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LIKE MAKING LOVE

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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NIGHTS

 

“Cupid and Bacchus my saints are,

may drink and love still reign,

with wine I wash away my cares,

and then to cunt again.”

 

~ John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester ~

 

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HANGIN’

 

“What you want,

what you’re hanging around in the world waiting for,

is for something to occur to you.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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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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BEAUTIFUL BRIGHT BLOSSOM

 

“Lust will curdle like milk if you don’t keep using it up.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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THE DARK ATTIC OF FORGOTTEN LIVES

 

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

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THE HUNGER OF TOUCH

 

“I see the world around me as a poem…

a huge ever-changing, flowing, breathing, living poem,

parts of which have to be preserved from time to time…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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NEW SKINS FOR OLD

 

“de nouvelles peaux pour les vieux…”

 

 

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