Posts Tagged With: Inspiration

dreamcanvas

 

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,
life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

 

~ Langston Hughes ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in June 2006.


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creation chimera

 

“Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.”

 

~ Kathleen Raine ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2013.


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towards the light

 

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;
for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

 

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2020.


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the performance

 

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

 

~ Noel Coward ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2021.


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ear worms

 

“Hums aren’t things which you get; they get you.”

 

~ Winnie the Pooh ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in December 2019.


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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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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2015.


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poetree

 

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

 

~ Jean Cocteau ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1991.


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sing me a soft song of my childhood

 

“Childhood is a short season.”

~ Helen Hayes ~

 

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


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la muse

 

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

 

~ Philip Sidney ~

 

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vanishing footprints

 

“I dwell in a lonely house I know that vanished many a summer ago.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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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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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.


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l’extase de l’insomnie

 

“Sleeping is no mean art:
for its sake one must stay awake all day.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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élan vital

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.


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BEGGAR’S BOWL

 

“It is safer to beg than to take,
but it is finer to take than to beg.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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


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WORDSMITH

 

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,
but what we are unable to say.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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WIND DIRECTION DETERMINED

 

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.”

 

~ Langston Hughes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 2000.


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WETSTEPS

 

“I feared this once, but I never knew that a sky so black, was once so blue.”

 

~ Billy J. Barnum ~

 

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THE PERFORMANCE

 

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

 

~ Noel Coward ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2021.


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RIDDLES

 

“I am a man of few words, but many riddles.”

 

~ Frank Gorshin ~

 

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


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THE SECRET OF THE PARADOX

 

“Ah, but I was so much younger then…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.


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