I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight

Natalie • Canadian • 21 • Any Human Heart

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Mary Oliver, Everything

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Art and Literature [1867] by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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rest in power, gboyega odubanjo

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Jean Jules Badin (1843-c. 1880), Circé - 1875

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What is more beautiful than night and someone in your arms that’s what we love about art it seems to prefer us and stays

Frank O’Hara, from “To You”

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Jenny Villebesseyx (French, 1854-1924): Poppies in a blue and white vase (via Bonhams)

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Ruth Awad, from “Reasons To Live”

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Basket of Plums by Anne Vallayer-Coster

French, 1769 (exhibited at the Salon of 1771)

oil on canvas

Cleveland Museum of Art

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‘Study of Thistles’ by Sophia L. Crownfield, c. 1890.

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Michel Garnier (1753-1829) "A Fashionably Dressed Young Woman in the Arcade of the Palais Royal" (1787) Oil on canvas Currently in a private collection

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Barbara Crooker, “And Now It’s September,” [ID in alt text]

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A 'sotto bosco' with mushrooms, butterflies, a dragonfly, a snake and a lizard - Otto Marseus van Schrieck

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Anne Sexton, from A Self-portrait in Letters

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Joos van Cleve, Self Portrait, 1519 - Detail

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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, (1483-1520), Raphael Madonna of the Pinks Ca. 1506–7 - Detail

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“And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for? / And have you changed your life?”

— Mary Oliver, Swan

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— Mary Oliver, I Know Someone