Palazzo Madama.

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David Hamilton - from the book La Danse (1974)

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The same source made it evident that she received V-letters by the bale. They were always torn into strips like bookmarks. I used occasionally to pluck myself a bookmark in passing. Remember and miss you and rain and please write and damn and goddamn were the words that recurred most often on these slips; those, and lonesome and love.

Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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Gaetano Motelli, La sposa dei sacri cantici, 1856

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Genève

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Canova’s dancer in Berlin

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Manolo in Palais Royal

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All lovers believe they are inventing love. Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

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Clarice and I

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Je donne à mon espoir mes yeux, ces pierreries Je donne à mon espoir mes mains, palmes de victoire Je donne à mon espoir mes pieds, chars de triomphe Je donne à mon espoir ma bouche, ce baiser Je donne à mon espoir mes narines qu’embaument les fleurs de la mi-mai Je donne à mon espoir mon cœur en ex-voto Je donne à mon espoir tout l’avenir qui tremble comme une petite lueur au loin dans la forêt

Courmelois, mi-mai 1915

Guillaume Apollinaire, Poèmes à Lou

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Aphrodite d'Este

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