o how he hungered

 

“I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.”

 

~ Sylvia Plath ~

 

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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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STAINED GLASS WINDOWS

 

“For she had eyes and chose me.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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PASSION

 

“Those who live passionately teach us how to love.

Those who love passionately teach us how to live.”

 

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach ~

 

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MEDUSA

 

“When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.”

 

~ Mason Cooley ~

 

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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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JEUNESSE

 

“Stolen waters are sweet,

and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

 

~ Proverbs 9:17 ~

 

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THE WATER NYMPH

 

“I will go to the bank by the wood

and become undisguised and naked…”

 

~ Walt Whitman ~

 

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HEAT TAKE TWO

 

“The bed must be a beautiful place,

not only because you make love there

but because you dream there as well.”

 

~ Anais Nin ~

 

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DÉSIR ROUGE

 

“There are two tragedies in life.

One is to lose your heart’s desire.

The other is to gain it.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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VENUS HIDDEN IN THE CITY

 

“Relationship is an art.

The dream that two people create

is more difficult to master than one.”

 

~ Don Miguel Ruiz ~

 

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SINGING BOWL

 

“The knower of the mystery of sound

knows the mystery of the whole universe.”

 

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan ~

 

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LE BAISER

 

“How far away the stars seem,

and how far is our first kiss,

and ah, how old my heart.”

 

~ William Butler Yeats ~

 

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GRIVOIS

 

“Saucy and overbold, how did you dare…?”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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THE UNKNOWN

 

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”

 

~ Guy de Maupassant ~

 

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ÉQUILIBRE

 

“Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.”

 

~ Charles Pierre Baudelaire ~

 

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L’AMOUR DE SOI

 

“If you have the ability to love,

love yourself first.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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THE BEST WORK OF ART

 

“The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter,

nor the harp played upon by the musician.

It is the clay modeling itself.”

 

~ E. S. Russell ~

 

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