Lydia Ventrelli
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Gorgonaeon
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Come to me, my child. Embrace me in the presences of She Who Stares. I’ll place my lips upon your eyelids and protect you from the glare. You position yourself accordingly. I will lower you into the earth tomorrow. I will worship your dirt.
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“And so it goes...”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― The World As I See It
― The World As I See It
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