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You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

Haruki Murakami

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“She grew into a forest, she could not be found.”

Cynthia Dewi Oka, from “Siege: In Response to the Man Who Asked Me, “Where Is the Courage in Your Poetry?”

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by my_tiny_jungalow

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Blossoms at night, and the faces of people moved by music.

Blossoms at Night, Kobayashi Issa ("The Spring of My Life: And Selected Haiku by Kobayashi Issa")

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Neon Night Ikebana, Tokyo, 1961. William Klein. Gelatin silver print on baryta paper.

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And then the day faded. We were dreaming, waiting for night. Standing at the front door at twilight, watching the shadows lengthen.

Louise Glück, from "Midsummer" in Poems 1962-2012

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Miller's Girl (2024)

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When the moon peeped out briefly from behind the clouds.

Photo by Angelica Ramirez  

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she sought other lands, strange faces, forgetfulness, the unfamiliar, the fantasy and the fairy tale.

Anaïs Nin

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I’m awake; I am in the world — I expect no further assurance.

from "Stars" by Louise Glück

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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975)

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Clarice Lispector, from An Apprenticeship or, The Book of Delights written in 1969

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I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other.

Jeanette Winterson, from Gut Symmetries

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things on my wall.

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whatever was left, that was ours for a while.

sunrise - louise glück

LizzieOrmian.redbubble.com

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Letters from the Stations of Childhood, Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)