ETERNAL NIGHT

 

“We live along the shores of night, at the edge of the eternal sea.”

 

~ Jack McDevitt ~

 

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

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THE PAINTER

 

“Painting is silent poetry.”

 

~ Plutarch ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in September 2017.

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ONE THIN WIRE

 

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

 

~ Simon Van Booy ~

 

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DAWN MADNESS

 

“The road is life.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Summer 1977.

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JAZZ

 

“You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.”

 

~ John Coltrane ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1986.

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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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SWANSONG

 

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow

of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Le Dôme Café in Paris in July 2014.

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BATS

 

“The colour of my soul is iron-grey

and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”

 

~ Claude Debussy ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of stenciled street art taken in Paris in May 2014.

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AN APRIL NIGHT

 

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

 

~ Anais Nin ~

 

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

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TWILIGHT TIME

 

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose…”

 

~ Ecclesiastes 3 ~

 

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

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DELIRIUM

 

“I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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MAYPOLE

 

“I ought to be jealous of the tower.

She is more famous than I am.”

 

~ Gustave Eiffel ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Rue Soufflot in Paris in May 2011.

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A CHANCE

 

“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves;

otherwise we harden.”

 

~ Johann Von Goethe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1952.

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COILED

 

“Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 2019.

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TONGUE OF THE NIGHT

 

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

 

~ Anne Carson ~

 

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MODESTY

 

“Modesty died when clothes were born.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2015.

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MOON WHISPERS

 

“I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver.

Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken somewhere in west central France in 2006.

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WETSTEPS

 

“I feared this once, but I never knew that a sky so black, was once so blue.”

 

~ Billy J. Barnum ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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A SPYDER IN THE NIGHT

“Normal is an illusion.

What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

~ Charles Addams ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 1983.

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