— Franz Kafka Asking Felice Bauer To Marry Him (Letters To Felice)

Artists need to lay their soul bare for the world to mock

That must be painful

breakfast

fake idgafer, i saw you yearning

“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”

— #Madeline Miller (Circe)

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

Be Near Me, Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You with the crack running through you”

enduring love

e.m forster, a room with a view / atonement (2007) / thomas hardy, far from the madding crowd / portrait of a lady on fire (2019) / cassandra clare, city of glass / rainer maria rilke / giovanni gasparro / philip pullman, the amber spyglass.