In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shared.
Black silk, shelter me.
I need
more of the night before I open
eyes and heart
to illumination. I must still
grow in the dark like a root
not ready, not ready at all.
Denise Levertov
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Chess players in the snow on Tsvetnoy Bulvar, Moscow, ca. 1950s.
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A tree is a passage between earth and sky.
Richard Powers, The Overstory
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Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.
Edvard Grieg
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination”
Emily Dickinson
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What will survive of us is love.
Philip Larkin
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.. along the dark edges of everything..
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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
William Faulkner
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..half asleep, half awake, we shall hear, we shall know..
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