“When we arrived at the centre of darkness the forest opened.” – Alejandra Pizarnik

“Secrets inside the mind like flowers in a garden at nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.”

“My mind throbs with divine emotion,”

Between a dream and a dream.

“I had lived in books and imagination, so my journey into my self was different. I had to find the earth.” — Anaïs Nin, from In Favor of the Sensitive Man

“I stand in the window and watch the moon. She is thin and lustreless, But I love her. I know the moon, And this is an alien city.” — Amy Lowell, from A London Thoroughfare.

Marina Tsvetaeva, from The Collected Poems; “Epilogue,” c. December 1924

Nobuyoshi Araki - [Grand Diary of a photo maniac], 1994/2007

Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Fady Joudah, from The Butterfly’s Burden; “We were missing a present”