“Aurélie Dupont, Like I Said, I Love Her, She Is One Of My Favorite Dancers In The World. I Watched

ANNIE MURPHY as Ruth Brenner in RUSSIAN DOLL - 2.02 “Coney Island Baby”

“Hair all tangled this morning - Shall I smooth it With spring rain Dripping form the jet-black Wings of swallows?”

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Yosano Akiko, “Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami”

Anaïs Nin, Fire: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1937

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

[1] Summer clouds are racing across the sky on Monet's pond, [2] Current in a summer sky,(Monet's pond) | Reiji Hiramatsu

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Lyrics of Edna St. Vincent Millay; "Interim"

[Text ID: “part of your heart / Aches in my breast; part of my heart lies chilled / In the damp earth with you. I have been torn / In two, and suffer for the rest of me.”]

Painting by Sasha Hartslief (b. 1974 Gauteng, South Africa)

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Chandelier.

  — Penelope’s Song, Louise Glück  

[text ID: Who wouldn't want you? Whose most demonic appetite could you possibly fail to answer?]

“Whatever it was I lost, whatever I wept for Was a wild, gentle thing, the small dark eyes Loving me in secret.”

— James Wright, “Milkweed,” from The Branch Will Not Break (Wesleyan University Press, 1972)