tiptoe away

 

“Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed,

we wear belief and custom.”

 

~ Cyril Connolly ~

 

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ladder to the moon

 

“That I could clamber to the frozen moon.

And draw the ladder after me.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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same ol’ moon

 

“Lend me thy pen to write a word in the moonlight…”

 

~ from a French folk song ~

 

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howl moonwards

 

“Be again, be again. (Pause.)

All that old misery. (Pause.)

Once wasn’t enough for you.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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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” ~

 

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with a fork

 

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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wordless

 

“I have no words for my reality.”

 

~ Max Frisch ~

 

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two candles burning

 

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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terpsichore

 

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

 

~ Corinna ~

 

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moon over me

 

“There are nights when the wolves are silent

and only the moon howls.”

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

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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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one evening’s moon

 

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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blabberwockey

 

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

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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 ~

 

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PHASES AND SHADOWS

 

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

 

~ John Greaves ~

 

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

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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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LUNACY

 

“Dost thou not feel them slip, how cold! how cold!

The moon’s thin wavering finger-tips, along thy throat?”

 

~ Adelaide Crapsey ~

 

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MOONCHILD

 

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

 

~ A.J. Lawless ~

 

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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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THE MOON STARES DOWN

 

“Before the winter fire,

I will still be dreaming,

I have no thought of time.”

 

~ Sandy Denny ~

 

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