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I believe with Jung that each of us is “modern man in search of a soul.” — James Hillman

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Book Cover for: You Will Hear Thunder, Anna Akhmatova

You Will Hear Thunder

Anna Akhmatova
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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

Paperback, 2017

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Dark Harbor: A Poem

Mark Strand
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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

Paperback, 1994

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories, Ursula K. Le Guin

The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories

Ursula K. Le Guin
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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

Paperback, 2013

$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics, Lou Reed

I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics

Lou Reed
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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

Hardcover, 2020

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Inferno: Italian-English Parallel Text, Dante

Inferno: Italian-English Parallel Text

Dante
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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

Paperback, 2021

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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de Profundis

Oscar Wilde
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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

Paperback, 2000

$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Vincent Van Gogh

New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Vincent van Gogh, First Steps (after Millet), January 1890, Saint-Rémy, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York https://t.co/1WsW3T1VGm

Hardcover, 1971

$75.00$50.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Ulysses

James Joyce
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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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Book Cover for: There Is No Road: Proverbs by Antonio Machado, Antonio Machado

There Is No Road: Proverbs by Antonio Machado

Antonio Machado
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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

Paperback, 2003

$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Leonardo da Vinci: A psychosexual study of an infantile reminiscence, Freud

Leonardo da Vinci: A psychosexual study of an infantile reminiscence

Freud
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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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