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Vicente López Portaña (detail)

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Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

— William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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I want to work this out with you.

I don't want to find you in another universe. I don't want to wish to meet you in a parallel galaxy, in the afterlife, or at another time.

I don't want you to be my what-if, my greatest love that got away, or my right-person-wrong time.

I don't want to spend my days searching for a love like yours. I do not want to give my heart to anyone else. I do not want to begin again, get to know a soul again, and pour out my all again.

I want to work this out with you. I want my poetries to be about your entirety. I want my future to be filled with ours. I want my years to be yours.

I want to argue, make up, and be close to you. I want to share silence, buy groceries, and build a home with you. I want to trace stars, reach dreams, and share victories with you.

Heaven and parallel universes are not promised.

I only have this one chance. And my love, I want us to end up in this lifetime.

-Aaron Arciaga

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“She didn’t need to be saved. She needed to be found and appreciated for exactly who she was.”

— j. iron word

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“I used to dislike being sensitive. I thought it made me weak. But take away that single trait, and you take away the very essence of who I am. You take away my conscience, my ability to empathize, my intuition, my creativity, my deep appreciation for the little things, my vivid inner life, my deep awareness of others’ pain, and my passion for it all.”

— Unknown

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On the road to Anacapri (1922)

Gerda Wegener

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Romantic Encounter (1864)

Mihály von Zichy

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The Madonna in the Church (1438)

Jan Van Eyck

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Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (c.1480)

Andrea Mantegna

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Distant View of Niagara Falls (1830)

Thomas Cole

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"they say lavender

softens anxiety / and i

wonder whether i can

plant a garden / so

dense in your mind /

that the knots in your

chest unravel / and

never tighten again."

jasmine kaur, when you ask me where i’m going

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"Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day,

descending upon earth with dews and shadows

and refreshing coolness! How beautiful the long

mild twilight, which, like a silver clasp, unites

today with yesterday."

- Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow

(art: Soirée D'été, Emile Claus 1849–1924)

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Die drei Grazien (1899)

Édouard Bisson