WORLDLY POSSESSIONS

 

“A poet is, before anything else,

a person who is passionately in love with language.”

 

~ W. H. Auden ~

 

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CORRIS

 

“All are lunatics,

but he who can analyze his delusions

is called a philosopher.”

 

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

 

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REVOLUTION IS FOREVER

 

“True revolution comes from true revulsion;

when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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CITY OF SHADOWS

 

“No man is an island.”

 

~ John Donne ~

 

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NOT FADE AWAY

 

“You show me continents, I see the islands,

You count the centuries, I blink my eyes.”

 

~ Bjork ~

 

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DEATH IS FOREVER

 

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.”

 

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

 

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FAIS UNE PAUSE

 

“It takes a very long time to become young.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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THE GOLDEN SHAFT

 

“He who climbs upon the highest mountains

laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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I WATCHED

 

“Men look at themselves in mirrors.

Women look for themselves.”

 

~ Elissa Melamed ~

 

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FOREVER OR LONGER

 

“We travel, some of us forever,

to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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