“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
~ Rumi ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Spring 2002.
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Posts Tagged With: Learning
NEW SPRING FLOWERS
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Colour, Digital Imagery, Flowers, Hunter, Learning, Meaning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prey, Sentences, Spring, Vine, Wisdom
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TO BREATHE BETWEEN DEATHS
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
~ Mae West ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2011.
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THERE WAS ALWAYS THE LEARNING
“Man…is above all the plaything of his memory.”
~ Andre Breton ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken by an unknown photographer in early 1972.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Bitterness, Chance Encounter, Digital Imagery, Dream, Emotions, Energy, Experience, Flings, Flirts, Heart, Hurt, Imagination, Infatuations, Intimacy, Joy, Learning, Life, Love, Lovers, Memories, Pain, Passion, Past, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Relationships, Sex, Shadows, Time
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THE EXPERIMENT
“We are like butterflies that flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
– Carl Sagan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alive, Chain, Comprehension, Consciousness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evolving, Existence, Experiment, Future, History, Imagination, Learning, Life, Light Years, Link, Metamorphosis, Nothing, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Possibilities, Science, Sentience, Stars, Time, Universe
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SO MUCH OLDER THEN
“All diseases run into one, old age.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in December 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Body, Clueless, Confused, Death, Digital Imagery, Experience, Gracefully, Knowledge, Learning, Life, Memories, Mind, Old Age, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stupefied, Time, Vegetable, Youth
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LA FEMME QUI LIT
“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”
~ Lisa Kleypas ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alluring, Beauty, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Heart, Intelligence, Learning, Life, Literature, Love, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, reading, Seductive, Wisdom, Woman
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TOO MANY BOOKS
“Psychopathia librorum….
I surround myself with the printed word.”
~ Sven Birkerts ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Amuse, Beauty, Books, Digital Imagery, Dust, Entertain, Future, History, Knowledge, Learning, Literature, Memories, Pages, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Shelves, Think, Time, Time Machine
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THE BEAUTY OF BOOKS
“So many books, so little time.”
~ Frank Zappa ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting by Wickenhäuser taken in November 2018.
© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Books, Child, Digital Imagery, Generations, Gift, Information, Knowledge, Learning, Legacy, Life, Literature, Love, Mind, Past, Photography, Poetry, Scrolls, Tablets, Time, Wisdom
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SARASWATI
“A mind is a fire to be kindled,
not a vessel to be filled.”
~ Plutarch ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Awareness, Beauty, Communication, Consciousness, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Experience, Independence, Knowledge, Language, Learning, Life, Love, Music, Performance, Photography, Poetry, Purity, Saraswati, Science, Teaching, Veena, Wisdom, Writing
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PHANTASMAGORIA
“Nihil est in intellectu quod non sit prius in sensu.”
“Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.”
~ Thomas Aquinas ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beliefs, Digital Imagery, Distort, Enhance, Fantasies, Imagination, Intellect, Interpretation, Knowledge, Learning, Observation, Paris, Perceptions, Phantasmagoria, Photography, Poetry, Senses, Truth
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NEXT TIME I’LL KNOW BETTER
“There’s a bit of magic in everything,
and some loss to even things out.”
~ Lou Reed ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a very miniature piece street art taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art
Tags: Blame, Emotions, Heart, Learning, Life, Love, Paradise, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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LIBERE TON ESPRIT
“There is nothing more powerful and
nothing more dangerously beautiful than a free mind.”
~ Bryant McGill ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2016.
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Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Imagination, Learning, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Risk, Self-Discipline, Spontaneity
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THE WRITING IN THE CLOUDS
“Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Glauberg, Germany in August 1986.
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Categories: Philosophy, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Clouds, Digital Imagery, Germany, Learning, Photography, Poetry, Sunset, Words
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