pépier

 

“God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

 

~ Jacques Deval ~

 

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red

 

“Yet would we die as some have done,

beating a way for the rising sun.”

 

~ Arna Bontemps ~

 

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i lie alone

 

“And my tongue stiffens into silence,

thin flames underneath my skin prickle and spark,

a rush of blood booms in my ears, and then my eyes go dark.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

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pièce de résistance

 

“Existence is a series of footnotes to a

     vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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bainrow

 

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on,

   and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

 

~William Shakespeare ~

 

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le cadeau

 

“We are always the same age inside.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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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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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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for all our lives

 

“…she pulled apart roses to appreciate the thorns……”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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no finer magic

 

“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”

 

~ Standing Bear ~

 

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jesse / plain jane

 

“Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.”

 

~ Robert Fripp ~

 

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terpsichore

 

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

 

~ Corinna ~

 

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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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THE TENEBROSITY OF DREAM

 

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

 

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

 

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SEVEN DEADLY SINS

 

“All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes

but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth,

poetry might never have been born.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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CUPPA JAVA

 

“To do good work one must eat well, be well housed,

have one’s fling from time to time, smoke one’s pipe,

and drink one’s coffee in peace.”

 

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

 

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TAPIS

 

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

 

~ Theodore Roethke ~

 

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TERPSICHORE

 

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

 

~ Corinna ~

 

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THE OIL OF YOU

 

“And ever has it been known that love knows not

its own depth until the hour of separation.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

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ONE MORNING’S MOON

 

“And he beholds the moon;

like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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