Posts Tagged With: Touch

and yet

 

“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”

 

~ Paulo Coelho ~

 

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like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.


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never enough time

 

“There is not enough time for anything, ever.”

 

~ Hilton Als ~

 

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like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

000 like making love 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.


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the moon hung fat and high

 

“Au clair de la lune prête moi ta plume pour écrire un mot…”
“In the moonlight lend me your pen to write a word…”

 

~ French Folk Song “Au Clair de la Lune” ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.


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prison

 

“I said, warden, warden, warden, won’t ya break your lock and key,
yeah, come along here, mister, c’mon and let the poor boy be…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.


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stop to smell the roses

 

“And in the end, the love you take,
   is equal to the love you make…”

 

~ Paul McCartney ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.


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a study of hands

 

“My life is light, waiting for the death wind,
Like a feather on the back of my hand.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Picasso’s Étude des Mains (Study Of Hands) painted in Paris in the spring of 1921 taken in le Musée national PicassoParis in May 2015.


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tree of life

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020 of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980.


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ghosts

 

“We both drowned under the waves of words we weren’t saying.”

 

~ Ben Maxfield ~

 

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


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ALONE

 

“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Everything in-between is a gift.”

 

~ Yul Brynner ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in May 1981.


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HANDS

 

“Hands have their own language.”

 

~ Simon Van Booy ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in May 2018.


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SLICES

 

“I am not interested in a slice of life,
what I want is a slice of the imagination.”

 

~ Carlos Fuentes ~

 

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


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MOON WHISPERS

 

“I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver.
Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken somewhere in west central France in 2006.


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LAST NIGHT ALIVE

 

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

 

~ Mae West ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 1991.


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THE OIL OF YOU

 

“And ever has it been known that love knows not
its own depth until the hour of separation.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Vénus Sortant Du Bain by Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain taken in Paris in June 2019.


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IN THIS TIME OF TOUCHING

 

“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”

 

~ Plato ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Albert Bartholomé taken in Paris in June 2019.


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TRAVELLERS LOST

 

“In your light I learn how to love.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.


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PRISON

 

“The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.”

 

~ Betsy Lerner ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.


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THE FIRST ACT IN THE TRAGEDY OF TOUCH

 

“Touch has a memory.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of a restored Roman mosaic taken in June 2004.


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