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Ilya S. Glazunov, The Lake of Tears, 1988.

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s sense of wrong...

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

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Frank Bernard Dicksee (English, 1853-1928)

The Sensitive Plant

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O Children

by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

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I shuddered listening to it

and remembered

“we’re all weeping now, weeping because

there ain’t nothing we can do to protect you

children”

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"Walking in Elysium" by Emile Corsi, 1886

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From the 1891 edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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Writing a fantasy / science fiction novel, filled with gore and blood, but also a geeky convention, full of characters going absolutely insane with each new chapter, a ruthless woman carrying out assassination after assassination, countless other worlds and a magid who’s slowly losing control of it all....? 

Yes please :)

How Can I Get to Babylon?

How many miles to Babylon? Threescore miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again. If your feet are nimble and light, You can get there by candle-light.

What should I take to Babylon? A handful of salt and grain, Water, a handful of wool for warmth, And a candle to make the road plain. If you tread with care and travel light, You can get there by candle-light.

How many years to Babylon? Threescore years and ten. Many have gone to Babylon, But few come back again. If you travel outside of day and night, You can get there by candle-light.

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The Rose Garden, c.1920 (oil on canvas) by Olaf Viggo Peter Langer (Undated, oil on canvas)

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when you know, you know.

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Sometimes life is stranger than fiction, but sometimes it's incomparable in other ways. Sometimes it's heaven that the false fire of imagination could never capture.

Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

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I hope I don't get tired of the sky, of long walks, of the lingering smell of coffee, of the calm of a rainy day.

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Marina Tsvetaeva, On Love

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"She doesn't speak too much but she leads the most intelligent conversations. She is a thinker. She has her coffee and books and music. She has her style. There's something so deep in her eyes. That's why everybody stares at her. She has a beautiful soul. She has a power and she is not afraid to be different. She is the art."

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Henry Miller, from “Tropic of Capricorn”

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Living in a dark academia novel 🥀✧˖°.

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