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Like Cinderella, I was enchanted. Christmas lights unbelievable, enormous four-ton tree blazing in Rockefeller Center, skaters waltzing and twirling, silver windows for window-shopping...all exotic and alive, wind-in-hair, frost and wine.

Sylvia Plath in a letter to Jon Rosenthal, wr. c. Christmas 1954

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Annie Swynnerton (British,1844-1933)

Glow Worm, 1900

Oil on canvas

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“Evening: to walk into my house is to walk into dawn, into color, into music, into perfume, into magic, into harmony.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944

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I am no more than a shell where the sea-swell goes on roaring.

Marina Tsvetaeva.

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You're ringed by fire. Its flashes delight me too. I am not frightened, beneath your tender eyelashes, of summer lightning.

Afanasy Fet, Translated by Robert Chandler.

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Across hundreds of summers, I send you my kiss.

Marina Tsvetaeva, To Osip Mandelstam.

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Ski Tracks by Gustaf Fjæstad.

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Tenderly treading through snow-swirls, Hung with threads of snow-pearls,

Alexander Blok, The Twelve.

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Forough Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season.

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Now all the trees asleep in the garden slip out of their bark and through thousands of pores the soil inhales the dizzy particles of the moon. Forouh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season.

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She stood on the terrace shaking the wet honeysuckle over her face, breathing its perfume, a creature momentarily compounded of dew and air and fragrance.

Elspeth Barker, O Caledonia.

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I go out on the verandah and run my fingers across the taut skin of the night.

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Something dreamy and dark, with distortion. Something I could close my eyes and drown in beautifully.

Mona Awad, Rouge.

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Where do I come from? Where do I come from? That I reek of the smell of night?

Forough Farrokhzad, Let us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season.

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With eyes like the sky, dripping their dark silks.

Mona Awad, Rouge.

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Moodboard: A Sagittarius Autumn Book List.

Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns.

Death Valley by Melissa Broder.

A Nest of Nightmares by Lisa Tuttle.

Aura by Carlos Fuentes.

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy.

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Moodboard: A Scorpio Autumn Book List.

Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson.

Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica.

Kamouraska by Anne Hébert.

A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems by Emily Jungmin Yoon.

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll.