THE NIGHT COMES DOWN

 

“One should always be drunk.

That’s all that matters…

But with what?

With wine, with poetry, or with virtue,

as you choose. But get drunk.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 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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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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RAINBOWS RAINING DOWN

 

“Poetry is a phantom script

telling how rainbows are made

and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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REFLECTING IN THE LIGHT

 

“The shadows: some hide, others reveal.”

 

~Antonio Porch ~

 

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MUSING

 

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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ÉLAN VITAL

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

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LITTLE BOX OF HAPPY

 

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

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THE FIRE IN HER EYES

 

“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story.”

 

~ Robert Fitzgerald ~

 

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LA MUSE

 

“Fool,” said my muse to me.

“Look in thy heart and write.”

 

~ Philip Sidney ~

 

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