purple shroom

 

“And you, whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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in those moments

 

“It’s one thing to fall in love.

It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you,

and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”

 

~ David Levithan ~

 

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tongue of the night

 

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

 

~ Anne Carson ~

 

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becoming one

 

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

A dream you dream together is reality.”

 

~ Yoko Ono ~

 

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the drowning man

 

“Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.”

 

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~

 

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human absurdity

 

“History is the study of all the world’s crime.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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conspirators

 

“Poems are like dreams:

in them you put what you don’t know you know.”

 

~ Adrienne Rich ~

 

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soft serendipity

 

“Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle

and discovering a farmer’s daughter.”

 

~ Julius H. Comroe, Jr. ~

 

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wordless

 

“I have no words for my reality.”

 

~ Max Frisch ~

 

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nevereveragainland

 

“O, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,

more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

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a face

 

“You use a glass mirror to see your face;

you use works of art to see your soul.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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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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PURPLE SHROOM

 

“And you, whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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SING

 

“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody,

it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.”

 

~ Janis Joplin ~

 

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TWO BECOME ONE BECOMES TWO

 

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

A dream you dream together is reality.”

 

~ Yoko Ono ~

 

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LAST LEAF

 

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,

watches beside me in this windy place.”

 

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

 

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TONGUE OF THE NIGHT

 

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

 

~ Anne Carson ~

 

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LAST FEW BREATHS

 

“When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window.

His last breath obscures the glass.” 

 

~ Anne Michaels ~

 

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ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE

 

“And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.”

 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

 

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ALWAYS BAREFOOT IN THE BRAMBLES

 

“All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left.

And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.”

 

~ Philippe Forest ~

 

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