IF I COULD BEHOLD ALL i IMAGINE

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-The Rose Marble Table, Matisse-

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The stolen orange- Brian Patten

When I left I stole an orange

I kept it in my pocket

It felt like a warm planet

Everywhere I went smelt of oranges

Whenever I got into an awkward situation

I'd take out the orange and smell it

And immediately on even dead branches I saw

The lovely and fierce orange blossom

That smells so much of joy

When I went out I stole an orange

It was a safeguard against imagining

There was nothing bright or special in the world.

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Lisbon, Portugal, 1998. Photos by Gueorgui Pinkhassov.

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Hay ciudades (Sophia de Mello)

Hay ciudades encendidas en la distancia,

Magnéticas y hondas como lunas,

Descampados en flor y calles negras

Llenas de exaltación y resonancia.

Hay ciudades encendidas cuyas luces

Quiebran la inseguridad de mis pasos,

Y el ángel de lo real abre sus brazos

En nardos que me matan de perfume.

Y tengo que partir para saber

Quién soy, para saber cuál es el nombre

Del profundo existir que me consume

En este país de niebla y de no ser.

             (Traducción de Ángel Campos Pámpano)

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A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then he's still left  with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he's still left with his hands.

Richard Siken

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Vincent van Gogh, Peasant Burning Weeds, 1883

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-Matisse-

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Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau am Staffelsee, 1905

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Andrei Remnev.

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Emilie Lindsten

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How long can I be a wall, keeping the wind off? How long can I be Gentling the sun with the shade of my hand, Intercepting the blue bolts of a cold moon?

Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “3 Women,”

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“The impression thinking about you gives me is very closely linked with that given me by a lonely hillside or a sunny afternoon… or books that have meant more to me than I can explain…”

Testament of Youth (2014)