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“Beacon Hill House,” Arthur Curtiss James house, Beacon Hill Road, Newport, Rhode Island.

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Statue of Meleager, Villa Medici, Rome. The art of garden design in Italy. 1906.

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Intérieur Rue de Vaugirard. 1910. Eugene Atget.

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Some very old books at Museo Correr, Venice

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The Window, 1886
by Valentin Serov (Russian, 1865–1911)

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"This is the light of autumn, not the light of spring.
The light of autumn: you will not be spared."
— Louise Glück, from Poems 1962-2012; “Vespers,”

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“If you feel but don’t write, you’re not a poet (where are the words?). If you write but don’t feel, you’re not a poet (where is the soul?). I prefer someone who feels but doesn’t write, to someone who writes but doesn’t feel.”

— Marina Tsvetaeva

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DESIGN FOR KNIFE HANDLES,
1583, ITALY.

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--Odysseus Elytis,
from The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis; “Dark Blue,”

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Letter by John Keats

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--Denise Levertov,
from The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov; “To the Snake”

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-Emily Dickinson
The Letters of Emily Dickinson

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Charlotte Brontë’s earliest surviving miniature manuscript book with watercolour drawings,
ca. 1828

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"the leaves are falling, falling as from far away, / as if distant gardens withered in the skies;"

-rainer maria rilke, from the poetry of rilke; “autumn” (tr. edward snow)

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Roman marble torso of a god or athlete,

circa 1st-2nd century A.D., based on a Greek sculpture of around the 4th Century B.C.

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Anna Karenina,
Leo Tolsoy

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Keats’ copy of Paradise Lost

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"I don’t see the dawn, I don’t sleep, I suffocate."

-Arthur Rimbaud, from a letter

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--#Michelangelo Buonarotti, tr. by William Jay Smith,
from “Night in the Medici Chapel,”

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"…the great autumn light begins, a time of change in the inner world."
-May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude