slow burning ember

 

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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thistles and thorns

 

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;

and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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free fall flow

 

“Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.”

 

~ William Hazlitt ~

 

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into the silence

 

“The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.”

 

~ Mary Oliver ~

 

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halcyon

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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awakening

 

“Without change, something sleeps inside us,

and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

 

~ Frank Herbert ~

 

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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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catshadow

 

“At night all cats are grey.”

 

~ French proverb ~

 

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the fabric of our souls

 

“The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”

 

~ Charles Ives ~

 

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the silence descends

 

“Everything has a secret soul,

which is silent more often than it speaks.”

 

~ Wassily Kandinsky ~

 

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skeletons

 

“Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old,

Their beards of icicles and snow…”

 

~ Charles duc d’Orléans ~

 

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gramophone

 

“As life runs on, the road grows strange

with faces new – and near the end 

the milestones into headstones change,

neath every one a friend.”

 

~ James Russell Lowell ~

 

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diving for pearls

 

“The drowning man is not troubled by the rain.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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season of silence

 

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge

of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

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sing me a soft song of my childhood

 

“Childhood is a short season.”

~ Helen Hayes ~

 

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page three

 

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

 

~ James Thurber ~

 

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nevereveragainland

 

“O, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,

more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

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a place i called home

 

“There are places we fear, places we dream,

places whose exiles we became

and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.”

 

~Thomas Pynchon ~

 

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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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a face

 

“You use a glass mirror to see your face;

you use works of art to see your soul.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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