Posts Tagged With: Memory

mouldy moon

 

“How slow this old moon wanes! She lingers my desires…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2021.


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childhood’s end

 

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

 

~ Ken Hill ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.


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afterthought

 

“For still I see that forethought spares
     afterthought and after-sorrow.”

 

~ Amelia Barr ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2010.


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rainbow’s end

 

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how
rainbows are made and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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


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aftertaste

 

“A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives
   a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.”

 

~ David Mitchell ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2010.


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the girl with a candle

 

“Look at how a single candle can
both defy and define the darkness.”

 

~ Anne Frank ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.


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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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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.


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dark corners

 

“The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept
the fantastic shadows into dusky corners,
where they lay shuddering.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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


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long shadows

 

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

 

~ Terry Pratchett ~

 

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


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sing me a soft song of my childhood

 

“Childhood is a short season.”

~ Helen Hayes ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.


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starsailor strange

 

“Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.”

 

~ Guy de Maupassant ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2018.


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the river flows

 

“Free fall flow, river flow, on and on it goes,
breathe under water till the end,
yes, the river knows…”

 

~ Robbie Krieger ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.


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the doubt remains

 

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art called “Poussiere De Tess – Batiment” taken in Paris in May 2018.


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remembrance

 

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

 

~ Antonio Porchia ~

 

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


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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2009.


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au ralenti

 

“Poetry is prose in slow motion.”

 

~ Nicholson Baker ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by noonie taken in the Rue de l’Arbalète in Paris in August 2017.


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immortality

 
“A book is the only immortality.”

 

~ Rufus Choate ~

 

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


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FOSSILIZED INSTANCES

 
“Though we are made of memories,
we live only in the here and now.”

 

~ Sue Halpern ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2021.


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THISTLES AND THORNS

 

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;
and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.


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NO ONE LISTENING

 

“It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1980.


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