Palais Garnier Opera House
Paris, France
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The world then was gold, burnished with light- and only because of you. / That's what I had believed. / How could one weep for sorrows other than yours? / How could one have any sorrow but the one you gave?
Faiz Ahmad Faiz, from Don’t Ask Me For That Love Again (tr. by Agha Shahid Ali)
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The sky, wherever I looked, was nothing but your eyes.
If you'd fall into my arms, Fate would be helpless.
Faiz Ahmad Faiz, from Don’t Ask Me For That Love Again (tr. by Agha Shahid Ali)
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Ferdinand Bucina - View from the Charles Bridge, Prague, 1950s
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[…] sonorous fountain,
eternal singer of the sleeping garden.
Antonio Machado, from “It was a clear evening” (tr. by Betty Jean Craige)
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And he was the demon of my dreams, the most handsome of all angels.
Antonio Machado, from “And he was the demon” (tr. by Robert Bly)
Erica Jong, from Lullaby for a Dybbuk
Rosalía de Castro, from “With his wave's soft persistent whisper” (tr. by Anna-Marie Aldaz, Barbara N. Gantt, Anne C. Bromley)
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Antonio Machado, from “It was a clear evening” (tr. by Betty Jean Craige)
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Pedro Salinas, from “Night is the deep questioning”; To Live In Pronouns: Selected Love Poems (tr. by Edith Helman & Norma Farber)
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and you were gazing
at me, more than gazing —
my gaze was dreaming you,
and yours was dreaming me.
Pedro Salinas, from “Tell me”; To Live In Pronouns: Selected Love Poems (tr. by Edith Helman & Norma Farber)
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“Joan of Arc, without tomb and without portrait, you who knew that the grave of heroes is the heart of the living.”
— André Malraux quoted by Mary Gordon in Joan of Arc: A Life
original:
Jean d’Arc, sans sépulture et sans portrait, toi qui savais que le tombeau des héros est le coeur des vivants. (via girlwithouthands)
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Horodok, Lviv Region, 1934
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it seems to have been said in dreams,
heard only in dreams.
Pedro Salinas, from “Do you know what you are”; To Live In Pronouns: Selected Love Poems (tr. by Edith Helman & Norma Farber)
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Pedro Salinas, from “What a walk in the night”; To Live In Pronouns: Selected Love Poems (tr. by Edith Helman & Norma Farber)
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Pedro Salinas, from “To live my life”; To Live In Pronouns: Selected Love Poems (tr. by Edith Helman & Norma Farber)
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you've been mine from so long ago,
Pedro Salinas, from “I don’t need time”; To Live In Pronouns: Selected Love Poems (tr. by Edith Helman & Norma Farber)
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I don't need time
to know what you're like:
finding each other is a lightning-flash.
Pedro Salinas, from “I don’t need time”; To Live In Pronouns: Selected Love Poems (tr. by Edith Helman & Norma Farber)
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