the ambience that was she

 

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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awakening

 

“Without change, something sleeps inside us,

and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

 

~ Frank Herbert ~

 

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a gravity of language

 

“Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

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dix mots

 

“Lying is the most fun a woman can have

without taking her clothes off.”

 

~ Natalie Portman ~

 

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miracle

 

“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall,

but wise words endure.”

 

~ Edward Thorndike ~

 

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a smile

 

“Look back, and smile on perils past.”

 

~ Walter Scott ~

 

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jours étranges

 

“The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled

to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.”

 

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

 

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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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conspirators

 

“Poems are like dreams:

in them you put what you don’t know you know.”

 

~ Adrienne Rich ~

 

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sentiments cachés

 

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses,

just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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boutonnière

 

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining;

show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

 

~ Anton Chekhov ~

 

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a danger

 

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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le peintre

 

“I do not seek. I find.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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same ol’ moon

 

“Lend me thy pen to write a word in the moonlight…”

 

~ from a French folk song ~

 

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nascent

 

 

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,

but what we are unable to say.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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the nature of the beast within

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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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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silent movies

 

“The world is pressed against your fingers,

and you’re still looking for something to hold.”

 

~ Nitya Prakash ~

 

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