“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”
~ Maurice Chevalier ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2023.
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Posts Tagged With: Present
thin around cause
“We postulate that time is thin around the cause
and dense around the effect.”
~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the Seine taken in Paris in May 2011.
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no future for fools
“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
~ Zadie Smith ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2015.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Fools, Future, No Future, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Time
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too many books
“Psychopathia librorum…
I surround myself with the printed word.”
~ Sven Birkerts ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Amuse, Beauty, Books, Digital Imagery, Dust, Entertain, Future, History, Knowledge, Learning, Literature, Memories, Pages, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Shelves, Think, Time, Time Machine
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time
“He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely.
He felt time moving through him, as if it were a ghost,
a thing that can haunt a man’s days and nights.”
~ Cathie Pelletier ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2014.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Dimension, Dreams, Future, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Time, Wasted Time
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FLIGHTS OF FANCY
“Some might think that the creativity, imagination,
and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”
~ Vladimir Nabokov ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Flights Of Fancy, Future, Memories, Mind, Page, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Progress, Sense, Sight, Sound, Syntax
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FOSSILIZED INSTANCES
“Though we are made of memories,
we live only in the here and now.”
~ Sue Halpern ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Eye, Flame, Incomprehension, Instances, Life, Memory, Moths, Past, Perspective, Petrified, Photography, Poetry, Present, Real, Spiral
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THIN AROUND CAUSE
“We postulate that time is thin around the cause
and dense around the effect.”
~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the Seine taken in Paris in May 2011.
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NO FUTURE FOR FOOLS
“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
~ Zadie Smith ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2015.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Fools, Future, No Future, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Time
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STRANGE HOW WE MET
“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
~ Anthony Burgess ~
Digitally enhanced image created in August 2020 from two scans of a signed Penguin edition of A Clockwork Orange. From the author’s personal collection.
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NOT FADE AWAY
“You show me continents, I see the islands,
You count the centuries, I blink my eyes.”
~ Bjork ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Coexistence, Cohesion, Continuum, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Eternity, Faces, Fade, Forever, Found, Future, Infinity, Janus, Life, Lips, Lost, Mouth, Never, Past, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Reason, Sound, Space, Time, Vortex
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LIFELINES
“The hand is the visible part of the brain.”
~ Immanuel Kant ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2017.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beaten Track, Bestseller, Book, Death, Digital Imagery, Formula, Fuss, Future, Imagination, Life, Lifelines, Memories, Organization, Outline, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Territory, Time, Trails, Work
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THE GHOSTS OF THINGS UNREMEMBERED
“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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TOO MANY BOOKS
“Psychopathia librorum….
I surround myself with the printed word.”
~ Sven Birkerts ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Amuse, Beauty, Books, Digital Imagery, Dust, Entertain, Future, History, Knowledge, Learning, Literature, Memories, Pages, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Shelves, Think, Time, Time Machine
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THE BOX
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.”
~ James Joyce ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Box, Charade, Darkness, Day, Death, Digital Imagery, Forgotten, Foundations, Future, Gray, History, Indifference, Life, Lock, Memories, Night, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Sky
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FLIGHTS OF FANCY
“Some might think that the creativity,
imagination, and flights of fancy
that give my life meaning are insanity.”
~ Vladimir Nabokov ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2010.
© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Flights Of Fancy, Future, Memories, Mind, Page, Paris, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Progress, Sense, Sight, Sound, Syntax
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FLY
“Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art
Tags: Death, Fly, Future, Lesson, Life, Nothingness, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Street Art, Wings
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ILLUSIONS
“Time is but an illusion created by
beings with limited perception.”
~ Ken Poriot ~
Photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2015.
© 2017 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art
Tags: Butterfly, Future, Illusions, Life, Movement, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Seasons, Street Art, Time
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DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
“Days are stringed instruments
and every one strikes a different note.”
~ Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.
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Categories: Haikus, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Dreams, Folly, Haikus, Life, Paradise, Paradox, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Time
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THE PATH OF BROKEN PROMISES
“Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Erbenheim, Germany in November 1985.
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Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Broken Promises, Digital Imagery, Future, Leaving, Past, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Promises
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