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December 2010
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The Coming of Light
thetranscendentalmodernist:
- by Mark Strand
Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, sending up warm bouquets of air. Even this late the bones of the body shine and tomorrow’s dust flares into breath.
September 2010
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August 2010
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July 2010
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“To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
June 2010
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“But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, ’twill not be more...”
– John Keats to Fanny Brawne, the 8th of July, 1819
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“…I’ll come to you, Lover, when you’re ready—Don’t—don’t ever think of the things...”
– Zelda Sayre to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Spring 1919
“…I began to think that there was something in the assertion of man and wife...”
– Mary Wollestonecraft to Gilbert Imlay, Paris, evening, 23 September 1794
May 2010
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…Hardly were my eyes ravished by his beauty than I was drawn towards him, entwined, melted. As flame meets flame, we burned in one bright fire. Here, at last, was my mate; my love; my self - for we were not two, but one, that one amazing being of whom Plato tells us in the Phaedrus, two halves of the same soul.
This was not a young man making love to a girl. This was the meeting of twin...
