Posts Tagged With: Hunger

o how he hungered

 

“I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.”

 

~ Sylvia Plath ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting by C.H. taken in March 2023.


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the fabric of our souls

 

“The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”

 

~ Charles Ives ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1983.


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the glass hungered for the wine

 

“SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate
after he has eaten its contents, madam.”

 

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2022.


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DARK COME THE DAYS

 

“Night’s black Mantle covers all alike.”

 

~ Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2019. Photo courtesy of W. Feger, used with permission.


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CAGES

 

“The eyes of others our prisons;
their thoughts our cages.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.


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CORNU COPIAE

 

“All animals are equal,
but some animals are more equal than others.”

 

~ George Orwell ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a fragment of painted Roman wall plaster depicting what is possibly an empty cornucopia taken in January 2016.


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GRACE MY TABLE

 

“Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story
of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2007.


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THE FABRIC OF OUR SOULS

 

“The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”

 

~ Charles Ives ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1983.


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LEFT TO HER OWN DEVICES

 

“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2001.


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COLOSSEUM

 

“All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”

 

~ Tacitus ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Colosseum in Rome in June 1996.


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AN OLDER MAN

 

“Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me.
I think you have more of an adventure with an older man.
And a happier journey.”

 

~ Emilia Fox ~

 

Digital painting created in 1999.


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TELL ME

 

“Hatred is something peculiar.
You will always find it strongest and most violent
where there is the lowest degree of culture.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

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


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CALIX

 

“Suspicion is a tenuous thing,
so impalpable that the exact moment of its birth
is not easy to determine.”

 

~ Francis Iles ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting by an unknown artist taken in April 2020.


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UNWRAPS THE COBWEBS

 

“Only the united beat of sex and the heart can create ecstasy.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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


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THE OBSERVER

 

“I am Raven.
I am black as liquid night with wings
and my eyes are stars to see by.”

 

~ Sophia Rose ~

 

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


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BLUE MOOD

 

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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


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JEUNESSE

 

“Stolen waters are sweet,
and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

 

~ Proverbs 9:17 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Aristide Maillol’s sculpture Jeunesse  in the Musée d’Orsay taken in Paris in June 2019.


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COITUS DAEMONIUM

 

“He who is neither human nor demon
is not the dawn nor the dusk.”

 

~ Kohta Hirano ~

 

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


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DARK COME THE DAYS

 

“Night’s black Mantle covers all alike.”

 

~Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2019. Photo courtesy of W. Feger, used with permission.


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WINTER’S WEB

 

“Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope;
winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”

 

~ Mignon McLaughlin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in December 2016.


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