I'm A.A. - dancer, visual artist, writer and poet.

Like many artists, I'm living in between words right now.

I hope you'll enjoy my small contribution to the artistic universe...

Love,

~ A.A. Lawrence

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   "I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me."

~ Anais Nin

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   "How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

   So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you."

~ Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet

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   "Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place."

~ Rumi

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   "When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

~ Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

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   "Hold fast to dreams

   For if dreams die

   Life is a broken-winged bird

   That cannot fly."

~ Langston Hughes

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   "It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."

~ Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

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   "Hope is the thing with feathers

   That perches in the soul

   And sings the tune without the words

   And never stops at all."

~ Emily Dickinson

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