ALWAYS EVENING

 

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,

but delicious in the years of maturity.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1982.

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THE DISTANCE OF MYTH

 

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken from the summit of one of the Peaks Of Otter in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in the summer of 1977.

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MIRACLE

 

“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall,

but wise words endure.”

 

~ Edward Thorndike ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a wall advertisement taken in the Marais district of Paris in July 2013.

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STOLEN WORDS

 

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Spring 2002.

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A SMILE

“Look back, and smile on perils past.”

~ Walter Scott ~

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WETSTEPS

 

“I feared this once, but I never knew that a sky so black, was once so blue.”

 

~ Billy J. Barnum ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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WORDS AND LINES

 

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

 

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo looking across the Summerland Meadows taken from the top of Glastonbury Tor, Somerset, England on a very rainy afternoon in June 2007.

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TITBIDS

 

“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in February 2021.

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DESPITE IT ALL

 

“Every man dies. Not every man lives.”

 

~ William Wallace ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2005.

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LUMPY GRAVY

 

“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”

 

~ Steven Weinberg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 1984.

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IMAGES ON A EUROPEAN DAY – PART ONE

 

“Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.

They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.”

 

~ Edgar Allan Poe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in 1994.

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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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MATTER DANCE

 

“Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”

 

~ Bill Hicks ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of a cave in the Vézère Valley, Dordogne, France in June 2006.

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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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NO MEANING

 

“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

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

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A DEMON THAT DEVOURED

“The creative person is overpowered,

captive of and driven by a demon…”

~ Carl Jung ~

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

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SITTING IN SILENCE

 

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love:

one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.”

 

~ Cesare Pavese ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a self-portrait taken in August 2012.

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A DANGER

 

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Le Dôme Café in Paris in May 2010.

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SILENT MOVIES

 

“When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that’s going on

from the images because the images are so strong.”

 

~ Monica Bellucci ~

 

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

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ALWAYS BAREFOOT IN THE BRAMBLES

 

“All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left.

And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.”

 

~ Philippe Forest ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1988.

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