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Miguel Hernández, from Twenty Poems; "It Would Have Been Less Painful,"

Selva Aparicio: Childhood Memories (2020) hand carved tapestry directly into wooden flooring

 by Kadir  Nelson

Aries: “What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?” Taurus: “Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.” Gemini: “To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world.” Cancer:  “I am the vampire at my own veins.” Leo: “Angels would damn themselves for me.” Virgo: “I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.” Libra: “Swan-white of heart; I smile not ever neither do I weep. I am as lovely as a dream in stone.” Scorpio: “Do not look for my heart any more, the beasts have eaten it.” Sagittarius: “One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters… But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk.” Capricorn: “We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. ” Aquarius: “Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.” Pisces: “The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds, who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day. But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, he cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”

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— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage