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“‘I know what you want,’ said the sea witch.”

Harry Clarke (1889-1931) illustration from The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, 1916.

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sans marque ss 2019 by anastasia lisitsyna

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“If my eyes look sad, it’s because I’m looking at my two hearts. They burn gently, with grace.”

— Kenji Miyazawa, from “Yes, Today You Will Part With Them,” wr. c. 1922

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“Even today I wanted to stand here and look up at you, Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, I came, getting drenched, only because I wanted to touch you, only because I wanted to kiss your skin,”

— Hiroaki Sato, from That First Time: Six Renga on Love; “Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain,”

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“Her body emerged like that of Venus coming out of the sea.”

— Anaïs Nin, from “Delta Of Venus,” originally published c. August 1977

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“She will become her own ghost,”

— Lucille Clifton, from The Collected Poems of L. C.; “Incantation Overheard In Hospital,”