Posts Tagged With: Essence

the garlic gods

 

“One rule in life,” he murmured to himself.
“If you can smell garlic, everything is all right.”

 

~ J.G. Ballard ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Crete in October 1992.


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IN THIS TIME OF TOUCHING

 

“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”

 

~ Plato ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Albert Bartholomé taken in Paris in June 2019.


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ONE NIGHTMORE

 

“If songs were lines in a conversation,
the situation would be fine…”

 

~ Nick Drake ~

 

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


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DISAPPEARING INTO THE DARKNESS

 

“I’ll search and I’ll find her again
even if I have to swim in my own tears.”

 

~ A.P. Sweet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2008.


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YEARNING

 

“How we need another soul to cling to.”

 

~ Sylvia Plath ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of street art on the Berlin Wall taken in January 2018.


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VERSE TOUJOURS

 

“Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.”

 

~ Lucille Clifton ~

 

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


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THE SCULPTOR’S WHORE

 

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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


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LEXICON

 

“A word into the silence thrown
always finds its echo somewhere
where silence opens hidden lexicons.”

 

~ Dejan Stojanovic ~

 

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


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KISS ME QUICK

 

“A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in November 2017.


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