LUNACY

 

“Dost thou not feel them slip, how cold! how cold!

The moon’s thin wavering finger-tips, along thy throat?”

 

~ Adelaide Crapsey ~

 

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STEP INTO THE DARKNESS

 

“It is in the darkness that one finds the light.”

 

~ Meister Eckhart ~

 

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NOT THE QUESTION

 

“There is always an easy solution to every problem –

neat, plausible, and wrong.”

 

~ H. L. Mencken ~

 

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THE VIRGIN

 

“Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.”

 

~ Alphonse de Lamartine ~

 

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SEVEN DEADLY SINS

 

“All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes

but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth,

poetry might never have been born.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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TALK TALK

 

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

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IN THE KEY OF COME HITHER…

 

“Our work is not to become unique. We are unique.

Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure

and to allow the inner whisper that says

“come hither” to be reason enough to go.”

 

~ Vironika Tugaleva ~

 

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POUR L’AMOUR DES LIVRES

 

“It is what you read when you don’t have to

that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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IN THE FLICKERING LIGHT

 

“If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how

people were depicted inside nature, not outside it.

It was a kind of dream time…”

 

~ Gregory Colbert ~

 

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TWO BECOME ONE BECOMES TWO

 

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

A dream you dream together is reality.”

 

~ Yoko Ono ~

 

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HERMAPHRODITE

 

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

 

~ Milan Kundera ~

 

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THE PIERCED HEART

 

“Stab the body and it heals,

but injure the heart

and the wound lasts a lifetime.”

 

~ Mineko Iwasaki ~

 

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CAGES

 

“The eyes of others our prisons;

their thoughts our cages.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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WITHERS

 

“It will not always be summer; build barns.”

 

~ Hesiod ~

 

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THE MOVEMENT OF AIR

 

“A painter paints pictures on canvas.

But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

 

~ Leopold Stokowski ~

 

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ONCE BROKEN

 

“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”

 

~ Madame de Stael ~

 

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A STICK FIGURE SCRAWL

 

“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”

 

~ Paul Cezanne ~

 

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DÉSHABILLÉ

 

“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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THE DISTANCE OF MYTH

 

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

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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SANS SCRIPT

 

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

 

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

 

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