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* Our parting was like a stalemate…. Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost. And worse still … that unshakable feeling that nothing was ever really finished. - Ranata Suzuki Photo: Montrose Park, Chicago. 2024

* There will always a glimmer in those who have been through the dark. — Atticus Poetry Photo: Michigan Avenue, Chicago. December 2024

* Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind As man’s ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude ⁃ William Shakespeare, ‘As You Like It’ Photo: Chicago Loop. January 2025

* All the leaves are brown And the sky is grey I've been for a walk On a winter's day - John Phillips and Michelle Phillips Photo: Montrose Harbor, Chicago. 2025

* Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic. — Aberjhani Photo: Chicago. 2025

* With Vulcan’s rage the rising winds conspire, And near our palace roll the flood of fire. — Charles Eliot Photo: Joliet, Illinois. January 2025

* All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it. — Anne Sexton Photo: South Loop, Chicago. 2025

* The city is caught in the grip of ice— Trees, walls, snow, are as under glass. Over crystals, I and the patterned sleighs Go our separate, unsteady ways. - Anna Akhmatova Photo: Foster Beach, Chicago. January 2025

* Love is a song you sing in search of deeper water. The body, you leave behind. The music travels with you. ― Traci Brimhall, ’The Rookery.’ Photo: 'Sky Landing Statue' by Yoko Ono. Garden of the Phoenix, Chicago. 2025

* When it rains, the world softens around the edges; streets and sidewalks become a liquid mirror onto which lights and colors bleed. When it rains, everything becomes beautiful . . . for a while. — John Mark Green Photo: River North, Chicago. 2025

* I have seen your darkest nights and brightest days and I want you to know that I will be here forever loving you in dusk. — Atticus Poetry Photo: Lincoln Park, Chicago. February 2025

* Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion. — Mikhail Naimy Photo: North Wells Street, Chicago. February 2025

* This night too will pass This roving solitude tentative shadows of tram wires on damp asphalt I watch the big heads of the coachmen half sleeping totter Dusk falls. There is nothing gentle about the sky. — Juan Ramón Jiménez Photo: Uptown, Chicago. February 2025

* We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams. — H.G. Wells Photo: Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago. February 2025

* Where does the wind go in a cloudless sky Down to sip the silence of the nigh Or preside at the freezing of ponds. Where does music go Once it leaves the violin And floats out through the window? - Harold Meredith Chown Photo: Jackson Park, Chicago. February 2024

* I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; ’Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson Photo: Presidents’ Day, Chicago. February 2025

* If I were the cold weather and people talked about me the way they talk about it, I’d just pack up and leave town. - William J. Harris Photo: Chicago Loop. February 2025

* So runs my dream, but what am I? An infant crying in the night An infant crying for the light And with no language but a cry. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson

* Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others — Leonard Cohen Photo: Chicago Loop. March 2025

* “I am ashes where once I was fire . . .” — Lord Byron Photo: Chicago. 2024