like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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she

 

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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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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like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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roses for milady

 

“One rose is enough for the dawn.”

 

~ Edmond Jabes ~

 

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ALL I NEED

 

“There’s never enough of the stuff you can’t get enough of.”

 

~ Patrick H.T. Doyle ~

 

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PURE POETRY

 

“Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.”

 

~ Natalie Clifford Barney ~

 

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ELECTRICITY

 

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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ROSES FOR MILADY

 

“One rose is enough for the dawn.”

 

~ Edmond Jabes ~

 

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THE SILENCE OF THE STONES

 

“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry,

whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.” 

 

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ~

 

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ANDROGYNE

 

“An androgynous mind was not a male mind.

It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience,

including the invisible lives of women.”

 

~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ~

 

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PROMISED LAND

 

“They say that the truth will set you free,

but then again, so will a lie.

It depends if you’re trying to get to the promised land

or if you’re just trying to get by.”

 

~ Ani DiFranco ~

 

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LIKE MAKING LOVE

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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HALLUCINATION

 

“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool,

and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”

 

~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~

 

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HOW MANY HANDS

 

“Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

 

~ Charles Spurgeon ~

 

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OOP BOOP A DOOP

 

“It’s all life is.

Just going ’round kissing people.”

 

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald ~

 

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NO PLACE ELSE

 

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud

was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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COQUETTE

 

“Marriage is the tomb of friendship.”

 

~ Hannah Webster Foster ~

 

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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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LATE AFTERNOONS

 

“When love is not madness, it is not love.”

 

~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca ~

 

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