Nikos Kazantzakis, From A Letter Featured In The Selected Letters Of Nikos Kazantzakis

the fruits i cut for you taste better because they have my love stains on them

apron on. a swirl of olive oil. the aroma of garlic. candlelit evening in. plump, red tomatoes. sea salt pasta water on boil. fusilli in. basil from the plant. jazz tunes on. creating in the kitchen is such a dream.

And this girl? She is somewhere between this heart & this knife.

— AL-SADDIQ AL-RADDI ⚜️ My Voice: A Decade of Poems from the Poetry Translation Centre (Ed. Sarah Maguire), transl. by Mark Ford & Hafiz Kheir, (2014)

Byzantine silver cross pendant, 10-11th century.

Anna Kamienska

An absolutely stunning axe, probably used for hunting, Sicily, Italy, ca. 16th century, housed at the Waddesdon Manor Art Collection.

you better not have used my single use orb

Mad, really mad, a stranger to herself and others, oblivious to the world, […] around her neck a necklace of curses and tears.

— Simin Behbahani, A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems, transl by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, (1999)

Catherine Zeta-Jones THE HAUNTING (1999)