thirty nine

people need poetry that will be their own secret to keep them awake forever*

*Osip Mandelstam (15 January 1891 - 27 December 1938)

thirty eight

pulvis et umbra sumus

thirty seven

"We do not record them," said the geographer, "because they are ephemeral. ... We write of eternal things." *

* Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 to 31 July 1944)

thirty six

curae mortales