Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 20 – Masks of Many Colours features the best contemporary poetry, fiction and fantasy from over 70 internationally renowned poets and fiction authors. Join them, with or without masks, on this journey through life and its myriad relationships, real and imagined, where folklore, romance, realism and dystopia mingle and merge casting light on secrets and shadows. "It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth." - Gao Xingjian. "Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling." - Khalil Gibran. "Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? " - Moliere. "I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask." - Bob Dylan. "You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask." - Jim Morrison. "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." - James A. Baldwin. "HumoUr is the mask of wisdom." - Friedrich Durrenmatt. "Every profound spirit needs a mask." - Friedrich Nietzsche. "Virtue has a veil, vice a mask." - Victor Hugo. "Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death." - Joshua L. Liebman. "The trouble with a mask is it never changes." - Charles Bukowski. "Mortals are equal; their mask differs." - Voltaire. "It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance." - Leonard Cohen. "It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act, and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks." - Jim Morrison. "Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself." - Frank Herbert.