My-dearest-giulia - GIULIA

- Sylvia Plath, from 'Ariel'

thinking about how orpheus turning to look back at eurydice isn’t a sign of mortal frailness but a sign of love

when remco campert said "poetry is an act of affirmation. i affirm that i live, that i do not live alone."

Guercino’s Angels  The Angel of the Annunciation, 1646  Angel, 17th century  The Annunciation, c.1616-18 The Angel of the Annunciation, c.1638/1639 

Linguistics, my beloved.

Interviewer: What difference in usage would you point out in these three languages [Russian, English, French], these three instruments?

Nabokov: Naunces. If you take framboise in French, for example, it’s a scarlet color, a very red color. In English, the word raspberry is rather dull, with perhaps a little brown or violet. A rather cold color. In Russian it’s a burst of light, malinovoe; the word has associations of brilliance, of gaiety, of ringing bells. How can you translate that?

- Vladimir Nabokov, Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor. Bryan Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy, Eds.

“ ..The sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.. ”

- Virginia Woolf “To the Lighthouse” 1927

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