Mono no Aware

幽玄

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Anaïs Nin, House of Incest

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Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to J. M. Murry written c. October 1922

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Katherine Mansfield, in a diary entry dated 14 October 1922, from Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield

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Tarn Hows Cottage - The English Lake District

Photo by Tony Richards

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I have just stood before the open window of my bedroom and I have breathed in deeply all the honeysuckle-perfumed air, the sunshine, the snowdrops of winter, the carouses of spring, the primroses, the crooning pigeons, the trills of the birds, the entire procession of soft winds and cool smells of frail colors and petal-textured skies, the knotted snake greys of old vine roots, the vertical shoots of young branches, the dank smell of old leaves, of wet earth, of torn roots, and fresh-cut grass, winter, summer, and fall, sunrises and sunsets, storms and lulls, wheat and chestnuts, wild strawberries and wild roses, violets and damp logs, burnt fields and new poppies.

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. I: 1931-1934

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"There are days when the sky is filled with the odor of lilac, when darkness becomes desire, when there is nothing that does not wish to be born."

Mark Strand, "The Seven Last Words"

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The Fairy Way by Margaret Winifred Tarrant

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collection of Triassic dragonfly fossils in China

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It was a wonderful clear moonlight night in May; the air was filled with soft perfume.

Alexander Wrangel, from The Memoirs of Baron N. Wrangel, 1847-1920

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Nasturtiums - Walter Joseph Phillips , 1930.

British , Canadian , 1884-1963

Woodcut , 15.1 x 17.7 cm.

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A bright, serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine,

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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Victor Hugo, from a letter to Alphonse Esquiros, written c. March 1853

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Henry Clarke - Moyra Swan Wearing a Dress from Irene Gilbert (Vogue UK 1968)