wee

 

“It takes a long time to become young.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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innocence

 

“Innocence crafts its own demise.”

 

~ F.T. McKinstry ~

 

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new skin for old

 

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”

 

~ William Butler Yeats ~

 

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slabber

 

“It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive;

the filth you cannot see.”

 

~ Jocelyn Murray ~

 

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child

 

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think…”

 

~ Margaret Mead ~

 

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promise

 

“The sweet converse of an innocent mind.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

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INNOCENCE

 

“Innocence crafts its own demise.”

 

~ F.T. McKinstry ~

 

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THE VIRGIN

 

“Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.”

 

~ Alphonse de Lamartine ~

 

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WEE

 

“It takes a long time to become young.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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UNSOILED AND UNSINNED

 

“What though the rose have prickles, yet ’tis pluck’d.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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WATCHING THE TREES DANCE

 

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower,

hold infinity in the palm of your hand, an eternity in an hour.”

 

~ William Blake ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in May 1981 .

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DÉSHABILLÉ

 

“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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WHEN TIMES WERE TIMES

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

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BLUR

 

“…wrapped in a waddle, ship in a bottle, like a thief in a brothel…

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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YEARNING

 

“How we need another soul to cling to.”

 

~ Sylvia Plath ~

 

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LA VERTU IRRÉSOLU

 

“Chastity ~ the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

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WITH PASSION AND PLEASURE

 

“New-born desires, after all,

have inexplicable charms,

and all the pleasure of love is in variety.”

 

~ Moliere ~

 

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PROMISE

 

“The sweet converse of an innocent mind.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

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JEUNESSE

 

“Stolen waters are sweet,

and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

 

~ Proverbs 9:17 ~

 

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THE VIRGIN

 

“Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.”

 

~ Alphonse de Lamartine ~

 

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