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The greatest mystery of all is reality.
Beckmann
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“I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvelously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.”
Katherine Mansfield,
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You can’t make homes out of human beings.
Warsan Shire
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Undisturbed,
my garden fills
with summer growth—
how I wish for one
who would push the deep grass aside.
Izumi Shikibu
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From Il Tartufo D’Oro
Marcus Oleniuk
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We sit and talk quietly,
with long lapses of silence,
and I am aware of the stream that has no language,
coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.
William Carlos Williams
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Intense, perceptive, blonde, lovely Sylvia. Perhaps she knew too much in a way. Perhaps, I know too much in a way as well. Mind me, I’m even darker than that. Slightly more evil.
Anne Sexton, on Sylvia Plath from “A self-portrait in letters.”
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He was shy, timid, gentle, and kind, but he wrote gruesome and painful books. He saw the world as full of invisible demons, who tear apart and destroy defenseless people. He was too clear-sighted and too wise to be able to live; he was too weak to fight, he had that weakness of noble, beautiful people who are not able to do battle against the fear of misunderstandings, unkindness, or intellectual lies. Such persons know beforehand that they are powerless and go down in defeat in such a way that they shame the victor. He knew people as only people of great sensitivity are able to know them, as somebody who is alone and sees people almost prophetically, from one flash of a face. He knew the world in a deep and extraordinary manner. He was himself a deep and extraordinary world.
Milená Jesenská, speaking about Franz Kafka
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