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Kate Baer, from What Kind of Woman: Poems; “To take back a life”

[Text ID: “the hunger to be held, to be wanted, to / be called from the streets like the family / dog. You are not a good girl. You are not / somebody’s otherness.”]

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Images by monia merlo

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Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, by Opera Atelier (2016) (x)

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Sappho - Translation from Anne Carson’s “If not, Winter”

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Fall Creek Falls  | Waterfall Wanderer

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“You can’t escape the sea that cradled you (…)”

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George Seferis, from Collected Poems; trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.

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Olga Smirnova, Semyon Chudin

Giselle

photo: Alisa Aslanova

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Euripides, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays; translated by Anne Carson

Text ID: Gods are stubborn. So am I.

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Inferno (1800s) - English School

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Adonis, from Death (tr. by Samuel Hazo)

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John Collier - Cassandra [detail]

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When — as so often happens — you are in a dream of mine, this dream and its echo in the following day are more real than all daily reality, are world and happening.

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, 15 April 1904 (tr. by Edward Snow & Michael Winkler)