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"i am Wisdom. mine is the blast of the resounding Word through which all creation came to be, and i quickened all things with my breath so that not one of them is mortal in its kind; for i am Life. indeed i am Life, whole and undivided - not hewn from any stone, or budded from branches, or rooted in virile strength; but all that lives has its root in Me. for Wisdom is the root whose blossom is the resounding Word…. i flame above the beauty of the fields to signify the earth - the matter from which humanity was made. i shine in the waters to indicate the soul, for, as water suffuses the whole earth, the soul pervades the whole body. i burn in the sun and the moon to denote Wisdom, and the stars are the innumerable words of Wisdom."

—Hildegard’s vision of bingen's vision of caritas (anima mundi), the Holy Spirit

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Browning Arms Company, Belgium.

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need him in a way. not telling you which one

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”A Bedouin was asked: what’s pleasure

he said “an unwarranted Kiss”

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Moon over Pyramids of Giza at night

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“YES, these the eyes, yes these the lips That gazed in mine, that gave the kiss The fair round body, slender hips As formed for Paradise's bliss Was she here? Whither flown from sight? Yes she was here, that gift she gave Gave me herself in act of flight & made my life her fettered slave”

—West-eastern Divan || الديوان الشرقي للمؤلف الغربي by Goethe

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Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Kimon Friar, from a poem featured in "Erotica: Love Poems,"

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an archive of love, middle east archive

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Eros is an all consuming fire

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these statues live in my head rent free

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