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— Such Singing in the Wild Branches, by Mary Oliver

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oscar wilde, from the collection "only dull people are brilliant at breakfast"

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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Writer’s Diary”

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Edwin Henry Landseer (English, 1802-1873)

Miss Ellen Power

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General Bonaparte during the Italian Campaign

by Maurice Toussaint

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by siegfried sassoon, from the first world war poetry digital archive

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Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, Antonio Canova, 1787-1793

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parallels: Virginia Woolf // Anaïs Nin // Walt Whitman

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from "the dislocated room" by richard siken

#text #poetry #richard siken

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Anne Carson (2009)

Arthur S. Way (1898)

George Theodoridis (2010)

Ian C. Johnston (2010)

E.P. Coleridge (1910)

Theodore Alois Buckley (1892)

John Peck, Frank Nisetich (1995)

R. Potter (1906)

M. L. West (1987)

William Arrowsmith (1958)

Philip Vellacott (1972)

Michael Wodhull (1782)

Kenneth McLeish (1997)

David Kovacs (2002)

Andrew Wilson (1993)

Euripides - Original (408 BCE)

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I have dreamed much and have done very little.

Gustave Flaubert, in a letter to George Sand (1866)

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A series of slight sketches of... H.M.S. Terror... 1836, 1837 while on a voyage to ascertain the existance of a North West Passage, by Lieutenant Owen Stanley, 1836-1837

#illustration #ink?

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“[I]n spite of appearances, God and the world belong together. There is no place where the love of God can’t go. And that is unbearably hard to believe.”

— Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, in “A Ray of Darkness”

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Lithograph of two impressively wasp-waisted navy youths entitled "Aspirants" (midshipmen), c. 1855. Left side labeled "Grande tenue" (full dress), right side "Petite tenue d'Été" (Google is giving me the probably over-literal but simply delightful translation "little summer outfit"—look at him in his little summer outfit!)

#print

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Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942, American) ~ On the Shore of Lake Erie, 1906

[Source: caldwellgallery.com]

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Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.

C.S. Lewis

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