Sa‘id ‘Aql, tr. by Matthew Sorenson and Naomi Shihab Nye, from Modern Arabic Poetry: an anthology; “More beautiful than your eyes”

Scanned from the book Oman Adorned: A Portrait in Silver; 1997; Miranda Morris & Pauline Shelton

María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus, featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

Beauport Abbey, France (by Anita costa)

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Claude Monet Lilacs in the Sun 1872

3 Dozen Red Roses, Andy Lovell

— Anna Akhmatova, from “Appearance of the Moon”

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