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SUTO Kazuyuki（須藤和之 Japanese, b.1981）

河風　Mineral Pigments, Ink, Color on Paper　via

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“For us, it is enough that the grass grows sideways into the loam, and that the wind is curious, silent tonight.”

— John Ashbery, from “At the Station”, Wakefulness: Poems

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Félix Vallotton (Swiss, 1865-1925), 

La Seine bordée de saules, Tournedos 1922

 Oil on canvas

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You were, when I met you, both things for me: the sensuous and the spiritual. That can never come asunder…

Paul Celan in a letter to Ingeborg Bachmann, quoted in ‘The Correspondence of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan’ by Charlie Louth from 'Centres of Cataclysm: Celebrating Fifty Years of Modern Poetry in Translation’

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HIRAMATSU Reiji（平松礼二 Japanese, b.1941）

梅の宴   Banquet of the Plum Blossoms   via

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I would go out under the stars and enter the smallness of being that was mine, and I would disappear into the emptiness within, and it seemed enormous.

– Mark Strand, from “Wooley,” Mr. and Mrs. Baby and Other Stories (Ecco, 1994)

#mark strand

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Félix Vallotton (Swiss-French, 1865-1925)

 Les Pommes 1911

#félix vallotton

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“The world passes by above my head in place of the sky, of course. I watch that world pass by.”

— Marguerite Duras, from the screenplay Hiroshima mon amour (Argos Films, 1959)

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Giuseppe Penone, Un anno in piu dell'albero, 1969 [Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Giuseppe Penone. Photo: © Cecilia Laulanne/Centre Pompidou. © Adagp, Paris]

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Leaf Shadows (di Jem Magbanua Illustration)

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Inari Krohn（Finnish, b.1945）

ETELÄÄN!   2019  line etching / woodcut / Chine collé   via    more

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“Under the cherished maple, I will treat you To a subtle conversation– […] In that dark green twilight There was the mysterious, sultry heat of anticipation.”

— Anna Akhmatova, from “The Pines,” The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, transl. Judith Hemschemeyer, ed. Roberta Reeder (Zephyr Press, 1997)

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“Where does this tenderness come from? And what will I do with it?”

— Marina Tsvetaeva, from “Where does such tenderness come from?” transl. Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine, Poetry (March 2012)

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Late in the day No.2 2017 chester dewitt rose

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YOSHIDA Hodaka（吉田 穂高 Japanese, 1926-1995）

House in Switzerland  1979  Photoetching and colour woodblock print   via   more

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“I said yes to your dream so many times I saw myself as you dreamed me.”

— Yanyi, from “Dream of the Divided Field,” New England Review (vol. 42, no. 3, 2021)

#yanyi