touch

 

“Find someone who will tremble for your touch,

someone whose fingers are a poem.”

 

~ Janet Fitch ~

 

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words like clay

 

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems

to the absurdity of not writing poems.”

 

~ Wisława Szymborska ~

 

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she

 

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

the brightest heaven of invention.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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sentiments cachés

 

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses,

just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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le peintre

 

“I do not seek. I find.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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i sang into the silence

 

“It is not now as it has been before.”

 

~ William Wordsworth ~

 

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the wind in the willows

 

“The most priceless possession of the human race

is the wonder of the world. Yet, latterly, the utmost endeavours

of mankind have been directed towards the dissipation of that wonder.”

 

~ Kenneth Grahme ~

 

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music

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

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a purpose

 

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand

as in what direction we are moving.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

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TOUR DE BABEL

 

“A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel

where all are speakers and no hearers.”

 

~ Alexander Smith ~

 

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WORDS LIKE CLAY

 

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems

to the absurdity of not writing poems.”

 

~ Wisława Szymborska ~

 

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SING

 

“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody,

it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.”

 

~ Janis Joplin ~

 

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SITTING IN SILENCE

 

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love:

one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.”

 

~ Cesare Pavese ~

 

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RIDDLES

 

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

 

~ Frank Gorshin ~

 

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NO BOUNDARIES

 

“The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.”

 

~ Malcolm De Chazal ~

 

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OCCUPIED

 

“Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.”

 

~ Wallace Stevens ~

 

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WORLDLY POSSESSIONS

 

“A poet is, before anything else,

a person who is passionately in love with language.”

 

~ W. H. Auden ~

 

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LE PEINTRE

 

“I do not seek. I find.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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CREATIVITY

 

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

 

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

 

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THE BEAST WITH TWO HEADS

 

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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