draws the bow

 

“After silence, that which comes nearest

     to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

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rainbow’s end

 

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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le cadeau

 

“We are always the same age inside.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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phases

 

“I’m just going through a phase right now.

Everybody goes through phases and all, don’t they?”

 

~ J.D. Salinger ~

 

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the public note

 

“When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.”

 

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~

 

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taste alone

 

“I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue

than live and never touch you again.”

 

~ Michelle Hodkin ~

 

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RAINBOW

 

“…she comes in colors…”

 

~ Mick Jagger – Keith Richards ~

 

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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 ~

 

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WHAT IT COST ME

 

“Passion pursues; love surrenders.”

 

~ Janet Todd ~

 

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THE PUBLIC NOTE

 

“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”

 

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~

 

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LIFE AS ART

 

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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RAIN

 

“And then we talked of the rain,

always back to the rain…”

 

~ Lou Reed ~

 

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DÉSHABILLÉ

 

“Les yeux déshabillent – Ce que mains habillent”

“The eyes have undressed things that hands have dressed.”

 

~ Charles de Leusse ~

 

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MOON DANCE

 

“And all the night’s magic seems to whisper and hush,

And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush,

Can I just have one more moondance with you, my love…”

 

~ Van Morrison ~

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DRAWS THE BOW

 

“After silence, that which comes nearest

to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

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PRISM’D PRISON

 

“English words are like prisms.

Empty, nothing inside,

and still they make rainbows.”

 

~ Denis Johnson ~

 

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LE CADEAU

 

“We are always the same age inside.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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SI HEUREUX

 

“A lifetime of happiness?

No man could bear it:

it would be hell on earth.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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THE TIME OF DISTANCE

 

“She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
And partings yet to be.”

 

~ Francis Thompson ~

 

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