Franz Kafka, 1912

art as a confession James Baldwin (The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman), Albert Camus (Notebooks, 1935-1942)

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

only the true king could remove the sword from the stone…. no one else could…… they didn’t have…. arthurization

friendly reminder that i have a big heart and i am trying my best

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Lytton Strachey, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

Love as Acceptance

Caitlyn Siehl // Leonard Cohen, "Anthem" // Rumi, "Bitterweet" // trans. Anne Carson, "Euripides" // Sade Andria Zabala, "Coffee and Cigarettes" // tumblr acct @/gayassnatural // Anne Carson, "H of H Playbook" // William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116" // Clementine von Radics, "Mouthful of Forevers" // Toni Morrison, "Jazz"

late afternoon and the air dissolves to luminous and elongated molecules. A heartfelt mercury as delicate as compelling as the melted movements of your lips

June Jordan, from the Foreword of Haruku/Love Poems

Separation, W. S. Merwin

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, from a letter featured in The Life & Letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Just Before Dawn, from A Year with Hafiz: Daily Contemplations by Daniel Ladinsky