grow wings

 

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

 

~ Frida Kahlo ~

 

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life’s blood

 

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

 

~ Alison Prince ~

 

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poetree

 

“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”

 

~ Jean Cocteau ~

 

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the key of wonder

 

“The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly…

not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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no finer magic

 

“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”

 

~ Standing Bear ~

 

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roses for milady

 

“One rose is enough for the dawn.”

 

~ Edmond Jabes ~

 

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spice

 

“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”

 

~ Joan Aiken ~

 

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la muse

 

“Fool,” said my muse to me. “Look in thy heart and write.”

 

~ Philip Sidney ~

 

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rainbows raining down

 

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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pretence

 

“Most people love you for who you pretend to be…

To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing.

You get to love your pretence…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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pure, simple nothing

 

“I love to talk about nothing.

It’s the only thing I know anything about.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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what we want to see

 

“We are always remaking history. Our memory is always

an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.”

 

~ Umberto Eco ~

 

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wormholes

 

“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience

that primordial shamanism is based on

is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

 

~ Terence McKenna ~

 

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woman

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

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

 

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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 ~

 

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blabberwockey

 

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

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points of light

 

“I know there is infinity beyond ourselves.

I wonder if there is infinity within.”

 

~ Charles Lindbergh ~

 

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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 ~

 

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masques

 

“A stage where every man must play a part,

and mine a sad one.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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remembrance

 

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

 

~ Antonio Porchia ~

 

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