THEODORA THE EXPLORER

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Winifred Knights

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St. Joan of Arc (detail, 1909) Paul Antoine de la Boulaye

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HELEN FRANKENTHALER

PARIS REVIEW, 1996

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Bernini, Apollo and Daphne (Detail), 1622-25

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El Despertar 4, by Rafael Navarro, 1989

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von Holzhausen

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“The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true … to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge.” https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/01/19/seamus-heaney-commencement/

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John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

John Berger (via amyvnorris)

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Puddle of Italy, Florence 2014

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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. Anaïs Nin

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Elise Joseph

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“If a thing loves, it is infinite.” ― William Blake

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“Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper.” – Audre Lorde