ONE HEART SHARED

 

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

 

~ Lord Byron ~

 

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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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LES RIDEAUX

 

“The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,

and say what thou seest yond.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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LAST LEAF

 

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,

watches beside me in this windy place.”

 

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

 

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A DIME A DOZEN

 

 

“…i have been dealing with these kinds

  of conversations for decades,

 only the names of the instruments

   have been changed to protect the innocent…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Café de Flore in Paris in July 2014.

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BLOSSOM

 

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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ALWAYS EVENING

 

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

but delicious in the years of maturity.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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THE DISTANCE OF MYTH

 

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

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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MIRACLE

 

“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall,

but wise words endure.”

 

~ Edward Thorndike ~

 

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STOLEN WORDS

 

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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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 ~

 

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WORDS AND LINES

 

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

 

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

 

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TITBIDS

 

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

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

 

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DESPITE IT ALL

 

“Every man dies. Not every man lives.”

 

~ William Wallace ~

 

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LUMPY GRAVY

 

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

 

~ Steven Weinberg ~

 

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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 ~

 

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IN THIS TIME OF TOUCHING

 

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

 

~ Plato ~

 

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