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Strange Thoughts

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO

From Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Cenci (1819)

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Black Bull of Sorrow

Oh, white wall of Spain!

Richard Meier & Partners’ Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Plaça dels Àngels, Barcelona, Spain

Oh, black bull of sorrow!

From Federico García Lorca’s Weeping for the Death of Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (1935)

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The Shuttlecock

He is a gamecock, and, in fighting trim,

Claes Oldenburg and Coojse van Bruggen’s Shuttlecocks, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO

There are not many birds that equal him.

From Carolyn Wells’ The Shuttlecock (1901)

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