stop to smell the roses

 

“And in the end, the love you take,

   is equal to the love you make…”

 

~ Paul McCartney ~

 

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at last i am free

 

“There is a time for departure

even when there’s no certain place to go.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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moon over me

 

“There are nights when the wolves are silent

and only the moon howls.”

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

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

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the stolen years

 

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

 

~ Christopher Paolini ~

 

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woman

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in May 2017.

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paradox

 

“What? do I love her,

that I desire to hear her speak again,

and feast upon her eyes.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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in her i had everything

 

“A thought that sometimes makes me hazy:

Am I – or are the others crazy?”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the mineral Sepiolite taken in Paris in May 2018.

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a good fit

 

“Like a ballet dancer, she keeps me on my toes.”

 

~ Jarod Kintz ~

 

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she shines

 

“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it, but you can feel it.”

 

~ Nicholas Sparks ~

 

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tree of life

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020 of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980.

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masques

 

“A stage where every man must play a part,

and mine a sad one.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2019.

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promise

 

“The sweet converse of an innocent mind.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

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brevity

 

“Four basic premises of writing, clarity, brevity, simplicity and humanity.”

 

~ William Zinsser ~

 

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

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mosaic

 

“We are mosaics – pieces of light, love, history,

stars glued together with magic and music and words.”

 

~ Anita Krishan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2019.

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the worst of better times

 

“Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

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the great silence

 

“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

 

~ Markus Zusak ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by HeartCraft taken in Paris in May 2019.

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la vie

 

“We all have two lives. The second one starts

when we realize we only have one.”

 

~ Tom Hiddleston ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2017.

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élan vital

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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ALONE

 

“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone.

Everything in-between is a gift.”

 

~ Yul Brynner ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in May 1981.

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IMMEDIATE CURTAIN

 

“Life is a cosmic joke.”

 

~ Robert Wyatt ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in December 2019. Poem title borrowed from Robert Wyatt’s song “Immediate Curtain” from the album ‘Matching Mole.’

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