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The Spirit of the New Moon — detail (1888), by Arthur Loureiro, oil on canvas, 56x155 cm, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (Study version)

detail from Annunciation by Jan van Eyck, c. 1434-1436 {full}

— Joseph Brodsky, Hope Against Hope: A Memoir

Elizabeth Metzger, from Lying In: Poems; “Lying in”

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in The Selected Diaries of Virginia Woolf

denial

Humming Birds, 2009

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

J.D. Salinger 

{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}

Louise Labé, from "Complete Poetry & Prose; A Bilingual Edition" tr. by Annie Finch

red bird, mary oliver

René Lalique, 1925

Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights