PAOLA CORSO
poet, photographer, activist
poet, photographer, activist
PORTFOLIO
IN STEP SERIES
(sample photographs)
ENDLESS JOURNEY/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
RHYTHM OF DIAMOND LACE/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
RETURNING/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
AS ABOVE SO BELOW/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
DREAMS OF ESCAPE/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
WINDING INWARD/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
TO LOOK WITHIN/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
SACRED GEOMETRY/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
INTRACACIES/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
STEP IN TIME/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
REDIRECTED/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
INTO SONG/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
VERTICAL BRIDGE SERIES
(sample photographs with quotes)
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"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
—Michaelangelo
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"Stairs elevate you; goodness elevates you; aware-ness elevates you: wisdom elevates you."
—Mehmet Murat Ildan
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"We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel.
—Abraham Joshua Heschel
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"Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
-Vaclav Havel
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"When it's obvious that goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
-Confucius
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"No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage ...
—William Shakespeare
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" You shall find how salt is the taste of another’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another’s stairs."
—Dante Alighieri
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"Step by step, the ladder is ascended ."
-Romanian Proverb
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" If you want to buy my wares, follow me and climb the stairs…Love for sale."
-Cole Porter
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"You can’t break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You’ve got to walk it slowly down the stairs.
—Mark Twain
Photo Credit: Paola Corso "Growth is an erratic forward movement; two steps forward, one step back."
― Julia Cameron
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"I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist."
—Tammy Faye Bakker
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"I climbed like a billion stairs…it’s not like I can take them two at a time."
—Danny DeVito
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"Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.”
—Craig D. Lounsbrough
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"Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing."
—Albert Einstein
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"Turning 15 is taking the step from the girl she’s been to the woman she’s becoming."
—Quinceanera
Photo Credit: Paola Corso "There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."
― Victor Hugo
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"When asked at age 79 why she lived many flights up the stairs:“It’s the only way I can make the hearts of men beat faster.”
—Sarah Bernhardt
Photo Credit: Paola Corso "Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're they're taking a piss."
― Banksy
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"I think I will, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life. "
—Yayoi Kusama
OF STONE AND LIGHT SERIES
(sample color collages)
PROPERTIES OF A PARAYELLOWGRAM/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
STAIRS AND STRIPES/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
LUMINOUS 1/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
SOLSTICE/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
CROSSING/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
BLUE MOON SHADOWS/Photo Credit: Paola Corso
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