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violentwavesofemotion: “What do I care for danger now that I am with you?” — Franz Kafka, from The Complete Stories; “The Burrow,” published c. 1931

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lifeinpoetry: “The only natural responses to vulnerability are love and violence.” — Elisa Gabbert, from The Self Unstable

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athenafilia: “If Bacchus ever had a colour he would claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keats’ ‘purple-stained mouth’, or perhaps even of Homer’s dangerously wine-dark sea” – Victoria Finlay Source: athenaefilia

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violentwavesofemotion: “Star-pale, celestial, neither flesh nor blood,” — Marya Zaturenska, from The Collected Poems; “The Seven Shadows,”