PERCEPTION

 

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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PASSION PLAY

 

“I shape beauty to human mouths,

give wings to insight.

I make naked the word.”

 

~ The Dialogue of the Two Sages ~

 

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ALL THAT NOTHING

 

“All that nothing causes all that pain…”

 

~ Chris Smither ~

 

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JOURS ÉTRANGES

 

“The nearer I come to the end of my days,

the more I am enabled to see that strange thing,

a life, and to see it whole.”

 

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

 

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JANIE

 

“To love and win is the best thing;

to love and lose, the next best.”

 

~ William Thackeray ~

 

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ELLE DANSE AVEC DES MOTS

 

“I will have my serpent’s tongue –

my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice.

I will overcome the tradition of silence.”

 

~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa ~

 

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LEFT BEHIND

 

“When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.”

 

~ Ovid ~

 

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HIDDEN

 

“There are fewer ways of making love than they say,

and more than one believes.”

 

~ Renee Vivien ~

 

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MOONCHILD

 

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

 

~ A.J. Lawless ~

 

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MINUIT

 

“Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!”

 

~ Lord Byron ~

 

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