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Self-portrait by José Tagarro
Poetry

So We Live

Who turned us thus around, so we,
no matter what, have the pose
of one…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
A painting in the style of Vincent Van Gogh depicting a whale hanging from ropes and pulleys on the side of a ship at night.
Prose

The Funeral

“Haul in the chains! Let the carcase go astern!” The vast tackles have now done…
By Herman Melville
Young Lady in Blue by Mișu Popp
Poetry

She Walks in Beauty


She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all…
By Lord Byron
Gregory Peck Moby Dick
Prose

The Sphynx

A short space elapsed, and up into this noiselessness came Ahab alone from his cabin.…
By Herman Melville
Poetry

Things That Grow

I like things with roots that know the earth,
Trees whose feet, nimble and brown,…
By Hazel Hall
Peasant Family Singing by Pieter Jacobsz. Duyfhuysen
Prose

Unattainable Happiness

Distance, my friend, is like the future. A dim vastness is spread before our soul;…
By Goethe
Poetry

Faith

Better trust all, and be deceived,
And weep that trust and that deceiving,
Than doubt…
By Frances Anne Kemble
Prose/Religion

The Beloved

Once when I was shedding bitter tears, when, dissolved in pain, my hope was melting…
By Novalis
Poetry

I Have Cast the World

I have cast the world,
and think me as nothing.
Yet I feel cold on…
By Yone Noguchi
Statue of Ramesses II
Poetry

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of…
By Percy Shelley
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