"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
October 10, 2011
"On my bed at night there is a copy of Shakespeare, a copy of Chaucer, an automatic pistol and a black muslin fan. This is my whole little world."
— Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Ottoline Morrell (May 1921)
(Source: katherinemansfieldsociety.org, via theredshoes)
September 24, 2011
"Perhaps such secrets, the secrets of everyone, were only expressed when the person laboriously dragged them into the light of the world, imposed them on the world, and made them part of the world’s experience. Without this effort, the secret place was merely a dungeon in which the person perished; without this effort, indeed, the world would be uninhabited darkness; and she saw, with a dreadful reluctance, why this effort was so rare."
— James Baldwin, Another Country
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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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