like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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first time

 

“Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.”

 

~ John Coltrane ~

 

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FEELINGS

 

“Most plants taste better when they’ve had to suffer a little.”

 

~ Diana Kennedy ~

 

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SANDWICH

 

“The only person who listens to both sides of an argument

is the fellow in the next apartment.”

 

~ Ruth Brown ~

 

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RIB DANCE

 

“Should I have brought earplugs?”

 

~ Kurt Nielsen ~

 

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BLACK CLOUDS DANCING

 

“We don’t see things as they are, 

we see them as we are.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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LIKE MAKING LOVE

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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HIDDEN

 

“There are fewer ways of making love than they say,

and more than one believes.”

 

~ Renee Vivien ~

 

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NIGHTS

 

“Cupid and Bacchus my saints are,

may drink and love still reign,

with wine I wash away my cares,

and then to cunt again.”

 

~ John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester ~

 

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LES DEUX AMANTS

 

“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful,

because we have had to love in order to live;

love has been our survival.”

 

~ Audre Lorde ~

 

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THE SCULPTOR’S WHORE

 

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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DREAMDANCER

 

“Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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PHALLUS DEI

 

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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LE SÉDUCTRICE

 

“It is not enough to conquer;

one must learn to seduce.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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LA MÈRE DE TOUT

 

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.”

 

~ Blaise Pascal ~

 

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FIRST TIME

 

“Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.”

 

~ John Coltrane ~

 

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SEX

 

“Writing is like making love.

Don’t worry about the orgasm,

just concentrate on the process.”

 

~ Isabel Allende ~

 

Original photo of street art taken in the Rue Aubury Le Boucher in Paris in August 2015.

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