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Come and be worshiped, come and be caressed, 270 My dark Vanessa, crimson-barred, my blest My Admirable butterfly! Explain How could you, in the gloam of Lilac Lane, Have let uncouth, hysterical John Shade Blubber your face, and ear, and shoulder blade?
Vladimir Nabokov • Pale Fire (Vintage International)
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
The Sirens: The highly anticipated second novel from the bestselling author of WEYWARD
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Poetry
Andreas Vlach • 1 card
In other words, this so-called unrequited heartbreak of Aeyla so faraway and unreachable forces us to begin to learn how to court the Divine: the first grand step toward becoming a whole person, a person who can turn loss into grief and grief into a song of life-giving praise. This is the metabolization of grief into beauty.
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
anathema
Alice Walker • The Color Purple
The word I use is hubris. Our word for arrogance that scrapes the stars, for violence and towering rage as ugly as the gods.
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
verse meant to agitate no one, anger and beauty reduced to empty aphorisms.
Hanya Yanagihara • A Little Life: The Million-Copy Bestseller (Picador Collection)
Early Women Writers
Faith Hahn • 2 cards