Posts Tagged With: Shadow

awakening

 

“Without change, something sleeps inside us,
and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

 

~ Frank Herbert ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2021.


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isolation

 

“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other
across seas of misunderstanding.”

 

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2016.


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catshadow

 

“At night all cats are grey.”

 

~ French proverb ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.


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l’ombre de la mort

 

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,
and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

 

~ Thomas Browne ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.


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mare nostrum

 

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα
καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ
νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,
ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

 

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,
it is midnight,
time is passing,
but I sleep alone.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken near the island of Thera (Santorini) in 1992.


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blood moon

 

“The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone.”

 

~ Tom Waits ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of an eclipse taken in March 2007.


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life’s blood

 

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint
of creative people since the world began.”

 

~ Alison Prince ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2015.


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give and take

 

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”

 

~ George Eliot ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art in Paris taken in August 2015.


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shadowdancer

 

“Normal is an illusion.
What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

 

~ Charles Addams ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.


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film noir

 

“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”

 

~ Raymond Chandler ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2022.


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UNE MOSAÏQUE DE TEMPS

 

“Madness conquers,
I can no longer put my mosaics together,
I just cry and laugh.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo (detail) of a Roman mosaic floor in Pompeii taken in 1996.


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TODAY WE SHINE

 

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on;
and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.


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SLEEPLESS NIGHTS BETWEEN

 

“Knowledge is a deadly friend if no one sets the rules…”

 

~ Peter Sinfield ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.


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POÈTE MAUDIT

 

“What can an eternity of damnation matter
to someone who has felt, if only for a second,
the infinity of delight?”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in February 2007.


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THE RED ROOM

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2021.


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ONE LONG LAST LOOK

 

“I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything
I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time,
like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost
of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever:
hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.”

 

~ Donna Tartt ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2010.


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THAT ONCE CAST HER SHADOW

 

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

 

~ Jack Lemmon ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the excavation of a Roman cremation burial taken in July 1987.


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ECCENTRIC

 

“Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.”

 

~ Ellen Terry ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.


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UNE MOSAÏQUE DE TEMPS

 

“Madness conquers,
I can no longer put my mosaics together,
I just cry and laugh.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo (detail) of a Roman mosaic floor in Pompeii taken in 1996.


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L’OMBRE DE LA MORT

 

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,
and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

 

~ Thomas Browne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2018.


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