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Eduard Bagritsky, from “Black Bread,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”

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Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.”

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Haruki Murakami

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Anne Frank // unknown

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shutting in. 

heather havrilesky // “last one up”, paul oxborough // from a letter to theo van gogh, vincent van gogh // on the beach at night alone (2017), dir. sang-soo hong // shauna niequist

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A Cruelty Special to Our Species, Emily Jungmin Yoon

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Details II: Aurora and Cephalus, 1811 and 1810, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. (detail I)

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― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

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Rumi, from The Privileged Lovers, tr. by Fereydoun Kia

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Emily Dickinson // Virginia Woolf

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if not, winter, sappho (tr. anne carson)

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girls holding roses

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“I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.”

— Dita Von Teese

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~The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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