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“You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire. … — Anna Akhmatova https://t.co/Qkt5YT1GvU ~ @holdengraber 🎨 Nathan Altman, 1914, Saint-Petersbourg https://t.co/SvVhuann8Y

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"A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. " ~ Mark Strand #Dotd

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The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. … I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. Ursula K. Le Guin

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“I'll be your mirror Reflect what you are, in case you don't know I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset The light on your door to show that you're home” — Lou Reed Have you listened to Quotomania yet? Check it out here: https://t.co/vy2sgYXmbd ~ @holdengraber https://t.co/KkXLKMKF3R

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The Three Shades/ Les Trois Ombres, by Auguste Rodin (1886) from his The Gates of Hell. The figures originally pointed to the phrase "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" ("Abandon all hope, ye who enter here") from Canto III of Dante’s Inferno. https://t.co/3qXzRBAisV

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"The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one's heart to stone." ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses

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Traveler, your footprints are the only road, nothing else. Traveler, there is no road; you make your own path as you walk. … and when you look back you see the path you will never travel again. Traveler, there is no road; only a ship’s wake on the sea. Antonio Machado

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Ophelia, 1851–52, by John Everett Millais #Botd. It is in the collection of Tate Britain, London. It depicts Ophelia, the character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river. Considered one of the most important works of the mid-19th century. https://t.co/TCuu3uJ4RV

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“We cannot grasp Leonardo da Vinci by examining his distorted relationship with his mother, as Freud tried. Thousands of us, millions and millions of us, have had every sort of mother trouble, but there is only one Leonardo.” — James Hillman

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