February 2012
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“‘But remember, that from the moment you commence your task until it is...”
– The Wild Swans, Hans Christian Andersen
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“We brothers,” said the eldest, “fly about as wild swans, so long as the sun is...”
– The Wild Swans, Hans Christian Andersen
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Sleeping in the Forest
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and...
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“Go out into the world and get your own living,” said the queen. “Fly like great...”
– The Wild Swans, Hans Christian Andersen
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The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen →
“Far away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dwelt a king who had eleven sons, and one daughter, named Eliza. The eleven brothers were princes, and each went to school with a star on his breast, and a sword by his side. They wrote with diamond pencils on gold slates, and learnt their lessons so quickly and read so easily that every one might know they were...
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All the Hemispheres
Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new water-mark on your excitement And love. Like a blooming night flower, Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness And giving Upon our intimate assembly. Change rooms in your mind for a day. All the hemispheres in existence Lie beside an...
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