"So, I say, what of the night, the terrible night?"
— Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (via proustitute)
January 15, 2012
October 27, 2011
October 26, 2011
"The picture must radiate light, the bodies have their own light which they consume to live; they burn, they are not lit from outside."
— Egon Schiele, from a letter written in 1912 to Dr. E, explaining his painting “Revelation” (via lastwaltzinvienna, yama-bato)
October 25, 2011
"the world is brittle,
seamed with cracks,
ready to shatter."
seamed with cracks,
ready to shatter."
— Denise Levertov, from “The Passing Bell”
October 25, 2011
Duncan Grant
Standing Male Nude - Study of Tony Asserati
c. 1935
Oil on canvas
97 cm x 45.5 cm
October 24, 2011
"Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet."
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
October 24, 2011
Marianne Moore, Poems, from The Egoist Press, 1921.
October 23, 2011
"Those
various sounds consistently indistinct, like intermingled echoes
struck from thin glass successively at random—"
various sounds consistently indistinct, like intermingled echoes
struck from thin glass successively at random—"
— Marianne Moore, from “Those Various Scalpels”
October 23, 2011
"stories run through my body
and purr in my lap…"
and purr in my lap…"
— Gabriela Mistral, “The Storyteller”
October 19, 2011
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“awkwardly we bump into stars
we see nothing we hear nothing
we beat with our fists on the dark ether”— Zbigniew Herbert, from “First the Dog,” trans.... -
“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.”
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“So, I say, what of the night, the terrible night?”— Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
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Federico Hurtado.
Nos tienen miedo porque no tenemos miedo
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Erté Harper’s Bazaar cover; perfect for this time of year.
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Pelagio Palagi, Unfinished Portrait, 19th century
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These images come from the fabled manuscript, ‘Liber Floridus’ (Book of Flowers), a Medieval encyclopædia produced some 900 years ago...
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