barke

 

“In order to understand the world,

one has to turn away from it on occasion.”

 

~ Albert Camus ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a sketch done in 1970 and scanned in July 2020.

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if only for a moment

 

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

 

~ Sydney J. Harris ~

 

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the fabric of our souls

 

“The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”

 

~ Charles Ives ~

 

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scripture

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

    Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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autumnal reflections

 

“Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real,

and you’re just a reflection of him.”

 

~ Bill Watterson ~

 

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last summer’s leaves

 

“Wild is the music of autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”

 

~ William Wordsworth ~

 

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a time of dying

 

“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.”

 

~ e.e. cummings

 

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a numbness

 

“How nice – to feel nothing,

and still get full credit for being alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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summer cedes

 

“…and all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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twilight

 

     “At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps

its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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poetree

 

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

 

~ Jean Cocteau ~

 

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trees talk

 

“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

That we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Kahlil Gibran ~

 

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fièvre

 

“My love is as a fever, longing still.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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film noir

 

“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”

 

~ Raymond Chandler ~

 

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the space to scribble

 

“Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry.”

 

~ Muriel Rukeyser ~

 

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wintertide

 

“He withers all in silence, and in his hand

unclothes the earth and freezes up frail life.”

 

~ William Blake ~

 

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dreams fading

 

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who

can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees

the dawn before the rest of the world.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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ROSES MORTES

 

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses,

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

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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CAMOUFLAGED

 

“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”

 

~ Margaret Atwood ~

 

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LIKE APPLES

 

“Woman is at once apple and serpent.”

 

~ Heinrich Heine ~

 

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