grow wings

 

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

 

~ Frida Kahlo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.

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long shadows

 

“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”

 

~ Terry Pratchett ~

 

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the moon hung fat and high

 

“Au clair de la lune prête moi ta plume pour écrire un mot…”

“In the moonlight lend me your pen to write a word…”

 

~ French Folk Song “Au Clair de la Lune” ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.

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prison

 

“I said, warden, warden, warden, won’t ya break your lock and key,

yeah, come along here, mister, c’mon and let the poor boy be…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.

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life’s blood

 

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

 

~ Alison Prince ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2015.

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the key of wonder

 

“The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly…

not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2015.

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puzzle

 

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1992.

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étoiles

 

“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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i sang into the silence

 

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

 

~ William Wordsworth ~

 

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all that nothing

 

 

“All that nothing causes all that pain…”

 

~ Chris Smither ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

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ruines

 

“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere,

but ruin in their eyes.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail of the sculptured walls by Louis Leygue in Studio 104 Radio France) taken in Paris in December 2019.

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dans un brouillard

 

“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in December 2019.

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roses for milady

 

“One rose is enough for the dawn.”

 

~ Edmond Jabes ~

 

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look back in anger

 

“There is nothing so cruel in this world

as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.

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open book

 

“A breeze discovered my open book,

and began to flutter the leaves to look.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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flapper

 

“A Flapper is one with a jitney body and a limousine mind.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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summer solstice

 

“But thy eternal Summer shall not fade.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a cropped photo taken at Stonehenge in England as the sun rose over the Heel Stone on the morning of June 21st 1983.

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sing me a soft song of my childhood

 

“Childhood is a short season.”

~ Helen Hayes ~

 

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pandora’s box

 

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

 

~ John Milton ~

 

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a dendrochronological sample of a tree felled in the year 30 AD, taken in March 2018.

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