Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012

it is an honor 2 be in ur computer

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

dude you should have been at the club last night it was insane. the dj was playing the lament and funeral of hector from the iliad and everyone was beating their breasts and tearing open their garments. at the end we all built up a funeral pyre in the middle of the dance floor and set it aflame. we were all feeling the inherent human connection through millennia old poetry, it was wild

— Franz Kafka asking Felice Bauer to marry him (Letters to Felice)

Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay”, Glass, Irony, and God

words by me

╰┈➤ pairing: Victor Von Doom & Reed Richards

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “The way I was taught to love”

[Text ID: “Half daughter, / half apology, all fire and the wrong kind of love.”]

letters to milena by franz kafka // camouflage by ron hicks // the golden notebook by doris lessing // ? // a letter to galatea kazantzaki by nikos kazantzakis