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— Adonis, The Story of a Day

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Sara Teasdale

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*sees life through a 70s dreamy filter*

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Mahmoud Darwish, from Journal of an Ordinary Grief (tr. from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi)

[Text ID: A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees; they are the ribs of childhood.]

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“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”

— Pablo Neruda

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— Ocean Vuong, Because It’s Summer

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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The magic of a scorching summer evening

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I just want everyone to eat well and get old

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Bothersome beast, comforting friend

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Sharon Van Etten, from Remind Me Tomorrow; “Jupiter 4,” released c. 2019

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  — Penelope’s Song, Louise Glück  

[text ID: Who wouldn't want you? Whose most demonic appetite could you possibly fail to answer?]

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Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room

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“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”

— T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

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Ceiling in the Courtyard at Casa Milà, Barcelona

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Mary Oliver, from “The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac”, Blue Horses