The Precise Sound Of A Flower Bud

her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone.

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Nervous awe and apprehension are born out of proximity and attention. The greater the intimacy between these cultures and nature, the greater the tension. The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.

Mary Ruefle, On Fear

17th century astronomical art of Maria Clara Eimmart; celestial splendor from a forgotten woman who broke the bounds of her time.

(brainpickings.org)

Dip your hands into that dark and believe whatever you touch.

Garous Abdolmalekian, The Bird of Reconciliation tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey

and the moon is the mouth of a lover

Garous Abdolmalekian, Acquiescence tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey

of loveliness in the snow and faithlessness in the flood;

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

FOR RENT: / an empty sky

- Agata Tuszyńska, Classified Ads tr. Regina Grol

The light is nervous and quiet -

Urszula M. Benka, To the Last Man on Earth, In the Hour of His Death tr. Regina Grol

I am only as much as I'm not.

Dagna Ślepowrońska, tr. Regina Grol

Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando