crimson thorned

 

“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”

 

~ Leigh Bardugo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2023.

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slow burning ember

 

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.

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on the cusp

 

“I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.”

 

~ Audre Lorde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.

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no regrets

 

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2016.

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bicycle

 

“The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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

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moonchild

 

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

 

~ A.J. Lawless ~

 

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

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yawns back at me in yellow

 

“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past,

I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.”

 

~ Bob Dylan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

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mouldy moon

 

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

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

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dusted with stars

 

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

or do we gaze at the stars because we are human.”

 

~ Neil Gaiman ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of La Palma, the Canary Islands, in November 1994.

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like the moon

 

“The eye is always caught by light,

but shadows have more to say.”

 

~ Gregory Maguire ~

 

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

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full blood wolf moon

 

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow.

The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2019.

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serious moonlight

 

“Let’s sway under the moonlight, this serious moonlight…”

 

~ David Bowie ~

 

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

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the silence descends

 

“Everything has a secret soul,

which is silent more often than it speaks.”

 

~ Wassily Kandinsky ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 1982.

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paradox three – excerpt

 

“Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Winter 1988.

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mare nostrum

 

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα

καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ

νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,

ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

 

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,

it is midnight,

time is passing,

but I sleep alone.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken near the island of Thera (Santorini) in 1992.

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touching

 

“The flames you keep touching when you’re young,

you keep right ahead on touching when you’re older.”

 

~ Will Walton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the mid 1980’s.

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slabber

 

“It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive;

the filth you cannot see.”

 

~ Jocelyn Murray ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

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obscured by clouds

 

“I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.”

 

~ A.E. Housman ~

 

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

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tiptoe away

 

“Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed,

we wear belief and custom.”

 

~ Cyril Connolly ~

 

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

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ladder to the moon

 

“That I could clamber to the frozen moon.

And draw the ladder after me.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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

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