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17th c heart seal-matrices
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Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
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Pema Chödrön, “Start Where You Are”
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Cover of Harper's Weekly, February 1909 by R.F. Schabelitz
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
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Heart, do not stain my skin
With bruises; go about
Your simple function. Mind,
Sleep now; do not intrude;
And do not spy; be kind.
Sweet blindness, now begin.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Theme and Variations II”
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τέτλαθι δή, κραδίη: καὶ κύντερον ἄλλο ποτ᾽ ἔτλης.
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Be patient, my heart: for you have endured things worse than this before.
Homer, Odyssey XX.18
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
Albert Camus, The Fall (via anenlighteningellipsis)
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what is stronger
than the human heart
which shatters over and over
and still lives
rupi kaur, the sun and her flowers
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Matthew Encina
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I cannot hide myself from you.
I cannot hide my heart from my heart.
Anna de Noailles, tr. by Jethro Bithell, from Poems; “Tale of Hearts,”
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This heart,
longing for you,
breaks
into a thousand pieces–
I wouldn’t lose one.
Izumi Shikibu, from The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan, trans. Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani (Vintage Classics, 1990)
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Letters, 1902-1922
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"This," I thought, "is power! Not to be strong of limb, hard of heart, ferocious, and daring; but kind compassionate and soft."
Mary Shelley, from The Last Man
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~ Gold Pair of Earrings. Place of origin: Korea Period: Three Kingdoms period, Old Silla kingdom (57 B.C.-A.D. 668) Date: A.D. 5th-7th century Medium: Hammered, cut, soldered, and riveted gold with twisted gold wire.
Source: collections.lacma.org