“Moonlight on canvas, midnight and wine,Two shadows starting to softly combine.
The picture they're painting
Is one of the heart;
And to those who have seen it,
It's a true work of art.Oh, the red strokes,
Passions uncaged;
Thundering moments of tenderness rage.
Oh, the red strokes,
Tempered and strong (Fearlessly drawn),
Burning the night like the dawn.”

Source: 1905 - 1910, Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter) (1908), p. 411

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 309.

Source: Dance Dance Dance

Source: The Ghost's Child

Drum-Taps. Rise O Days from your fathomless Deep, 3
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 8 (Gunter Brus Werkumkreisung,op.cit, p. 128.)

"The Floating Cake" (a metaphor for "woman")
Spring Essence (2000)

Song. Softly, O Midnight Hours; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 721.

Verses Written on a Window in Scotland.
Context: Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.’Tis the same with common natures:
Use ’em kindly, they rebel;
But be rough as nutmeg-graters,
And the rogues obey you well.