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Edgar Allan Poe, from Tamerlane & Other Poems of E. A. P.; “The Sleeper,”

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terrible years really make you understand the point of a new year. i know nothing much will have changed between dec 31 and jan 1, but we need to be able to partition off everything that’s happened to us, we need a moment to say, ‘that’s done, we’re done with it, it’s over’ and have a little hope that the future will be different. we need to be able to stop and take a breath and sing, in the middle of winter, and prepare ourselves for spring.

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A Murmur / Like Milk Was the Flower

by Mary Herbert (2021)

Soft pastel on paper.

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“So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars. Let us listen to the sound of breath in our bodies. Let us listen to the sounds of our own voices, of our own names, of our own fears. Let’s claw ourselves out from the graves we’ve dug. Let’s lick the earth from our fingers. Let us look up and out and around. The world is big and wide and wild and wonderful and wicked, and our lives are murky, magnificent, malleable, and full of meaning. Oremus. Let us pray.”

Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Maurice, E. M. Forster

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Fundació Concepció Rabel (1923-1928)

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She did not need much, wanted very little. A kind word, sincerity, fresh air, clean water, a garden, kisses, books to read, sheltering arms, a cozy bed, and to love and be loved in return.

Starra Neely Blade (via macadameia)

Y ya lo tengo.

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It’s time to break out — Jailbreak time. Time to punch our way out of the dark winter prison. Lilacs are doing it in sudden explosions of soft purple, And the jasmine vines, and ranunculus, too. There is no jailer powerful enough to hold Spring contained. Let that be a lesson. Stop holding back the blossoming! Quit shutting eyes and gritting teeth, curling fingers into fists, hunching shoulders. Lose your determination to remain unchanged. All the forces of nature want you to open, Their gentle nudge carries behind it the force of a flash flood. Why make a cell your home when the door is unlocked and the garden is waiting for you?

Jailbreak.Maya Spector.

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God, let me be conscious of it! Let me be conscious of what is happening, while it is happening.  Let me realize it & feel it vividly.  Let not the consciousness of this event (as happens so often) come to me tardily, so that I half miss the experience.  Let me be conscious of it!  -Anne Morrow Lindbergh.Bring Me a Unicorn.

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-Pat Perry

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Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (1919)

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“Darling, I don’t want you; I’ve got no place for you; I only want what you give.  I don’t want the whole of anyone...What you want is the whole of me-isn’t it, isn’t it? -and the whole of me isn’t there for anybody.  In that full sense you want me I don’t exist.” The Death of the Heart.Elizabeth Bowen.