Posts Tagged With: Lines

like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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danseuse

 

“Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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conspirators

 

“Poems are like dreams:
in them you put what you don’t know you know.”

 

~ Adrienne Rich ~

 

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the nature of the beast within

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.
Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

000 like making love 1

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the final act

 

“I knew if I waited around long enough
something like this would happen.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

(epitaph)

 

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open book

 

“A breeze discovered my open book,
and began to flutter the leaves to look.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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midnightmare

 

“They’ve promised that dreams can come true –
but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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WORDS

 

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

 

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a 1908 edition of Webster’s International Dictionary taken in February 2018.


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HER BRIGHT EMBRACE

 

“Landlords, like all other men,
love to reap where they never sowed.”

 

~ Karl Marx ~

 

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POTPOURRI

 

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

 

~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1971.


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WORDS AND LINES

 

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

 

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo looking across the Summerland Meadows taken from the top of Glastonbury Tor, Somerset, England on a very rainy afternoon in June 2007.


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JUST A FROWN

 

“O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat,
let me be feverish and frowning.”

 

~ Anne Sexton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1976.


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BEDSIDE WIT

 

“I can resist anything except temptation.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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THE FINAL ACT

 

“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

(epitaph)

 

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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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LAST FEW BREATHS

 

“When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window.
His last breath obscures the glass.” 

 

~ Anne Michaels ~

 

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WHEN TIMES WERE TIMES

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

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ALL I NEED

 

“There’s never enough of the stuff you can’t get enough of.”

 

~ Patrick H.T. Doyle ~

 

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SOLO OUT UPON THE STAGE

 
“It is little men know of women;
their smiles and their tears alike
are seldom what they seem.”

 

~ Amelia Barr ~

 

Digitally enhanced image rendered as a painting created in March 2001.


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