Madlena Muiata In Ceai

@inthemutedlight

between tenderness and violence
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“…I have known with certainty that the worst things, and even despair, are only a kind of abundance and an onslaught of existence that one decision of the heart could turn into its opposite. Where things become truly difficult and unbearable, we find ourselves in a place already very close to its transformation.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Anita Forrer, February 14, 1920

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Henri Matisse at his home, villa Le Rêve, in Alpes-Maritimes, Vence. Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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“(Do I wear my skin like a costume / or a uniform? Do I wear my hair like a fountain?)”

Lauren Russell, from “Transitive,” published in Cave Canem’s Poet of the Week

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“Vainly I sought nourishment in shadows and errors.”

Jorge Luis Borges, from A Personal Anthology; “Baltasar Gracián,”

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“In the muted light of the summer moon, / Standing naked and dreaming…”

Arthur Rimbaud, from Selected Poems & Prose; “Credo In Unam,”

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“Touched with flame, feeling that flow endearing flow over skin limbs human heart soul spine.”

James Joyce, from The Complete Works; “Ulysses,” (published c. 1918)