βSky is omnipresent, even in darkness under the skin.β
β Wislawa Szymborska, from βSky,β featured in The New Republic, May 25, 1998
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Mary Oliver, from βThe Fourth Sign of the Zodiacβ, Blue Horses
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Alfred Tennyson, "Lancelot and Elaine" from Idylls of the King originally published in 1859
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American poet Randall Jarrell
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a womanβs story by annie ernaux
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Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"
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Mary Oliver, from βHum Humβ,Β A Thousand Mornings
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I appreciate one shouldn't write to the dead, but you know perfectly well that sometimes writing to the dead is an excuse, it's an elementary Freudian truth, because it's the quickest way of writing to oneself, and so forgive me, I am writing to myself, even though perhaps I am writing to the memory of you I keep inside me, the mark you left inside me, and hence in a certain sense I really am writing to youβ¦
β Antonio Tabucchi, from βThe Archives of Macao,β The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico (Archipelago Books, 2013)
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I too have known loneliness. I too have known what it is to feel misunderstood, rejected, and suddenly not at all beautiful. Oh, mother earth, your comfort is great, your arms never withhold. It has saved my life to know this. Your rivers flowing, your roses opening in the morning. Oh, motions of tenderness!
Mary Oliver, from "Loneliness" in Blue Horses
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Shiotani TeikΓ΄ (Japanese, 1899-1988)
Waves
1937
Gelatin silver print
11 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Theodore Roethke, from "In a Dark Time", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]
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Sylvia Plath, "The Rival." Ariel
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Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"
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Dudley Randall, US poet
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βAn idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.β
β Lawrence Durrell, from Monsieur (Viking Press, 1975)
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