the reluctant prince

 

“Sleeping Beauty, who said to Prince Charming,

are you sure all we did was kiss?”

 

~ Red Buttons ~

 

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becoming one

 

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

A dream you dream together is reality.”

 

~ Yoko Ono ~

 

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creation chimera

 

“Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.”

 

~ Kathleen Raine ~

 

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aftertaste

 

“A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives

   a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.”

 

~ David Mitchell ~

 

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poppies

 

“Through the dancing poppies stole

    a breeze most softly lulling to my soul…”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

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gramophone

 

“As life runs on, the road grows strange

with faces new – and near the end 

the milestones into headstones change,

neath every one a friend.”

 

~ James Russell Lowell ~

 

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saxophones

 

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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morning mists

 

“Knowledge would be fatal.

It is the uncertainty that charms one.

A mist makes things wonderful.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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light shines down

 

“When you possess light within, you see it externally.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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silent movies

 

“The world is pressed against your fingers,

and you’re still looking for something to hold.”

 

~ Nitya Prakash ~

 

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wordless

 

“I have no words for my reality.”

 

~ Max Frisch ~

 

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all that nothing

 

 

“All that nothing causes all that pain…”

 

~ Chris Smither ~

 

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roses for milady

 

“One rose is enough for the dawn.”

 

~ Edmond Jabes ~

 

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pandora’s box

 

“In naked beauty more adorn’d, more lovely than Pandora.”

 

~ John Milton ~

 

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nevereveragainland

 

“O, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,

more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

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pretence

 

“Most people love you for who you pretend to be…

To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing.

You get to love your pretence…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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in her i had everything

 

“A thought that sometimes makes me hazy:

Am I – or are the others crazy?”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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this, that and the other

 

“At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

 

~ Plato ~

 

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smile

 

“Everyone smiles in the same language.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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THE DECEMBER DREAM

 

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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