CITADEL

 

“We are all born ignorant,

but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a hand painted tile taken in April 2020.

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

SACRIFICED

 

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw

on a bank where they have no account.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from three original photos taken between May and July 1987.

---

© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

RENDER UNTO CAESAR

 

“A lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep.”

 

~ George R.R. Martin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2008.

---

© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

SHEEP

 

“I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious,

and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.”

 

~ Moliere ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in December 2019.

---

© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

SIREN

 

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2019.

---

© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

LOVE YOUR WORLD

 

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.

---

© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

WEE

 

“It takes a long time to become young.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in La Palma, the Canary Islands in November 1994.

---

© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

ALL BLUE

 

“A certain blue enters your soul.”

 

~ Henri Matisse ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

---

© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

YOUR ASS IS GRASS

 

“Everyone is so busy making believe that

their impending doom can be avoided,

that they will still delude themselves that 

a miracle can save them even as they are 

drowning, burning and slaughtering each other.”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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

---

© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

SHEEP, WOLVES AND PIGS

 

“What can one do?

We are as helpless to control our Government

as we are to change the weather.”

 

~ Hortense Berthelot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at the King Barrows near Stonehenge, England in June 2007.

---

© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved

---