“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.

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”