l'art de vivre

— Kolbe Riney, from “voyager,” Up the Staircase Quarterly (no. 57)

MiG-29 with F-16 Polish Air Force,

“This photograph is my proof. There was that afternoon, when things were still good between us, and she embraced me, and we were so happy. It did happen. She did love me. Look for yourself.” This is my proof, Duane Michals, 1974

— Kaveh Akbar, from an interview with Jason Myers, at Eco the Collective, December 15, 2021 (via indeskidgepoetry)

Micah Nemerever, "These Violent Delights"

― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

by Dave Brosha

Tokyo Ghoul (2017)

— vladimir nabokov, in a letter to his wife [24 march 1937] from letters to véra (trans. olga voronina & brian boyd)

CZESLAW MILOSZ

Federico García Lorca, from Sonnet of the Garland of Roses; Collected Poems (ed. by Christopher Maurer)

— Marina Tsvetayeva in a letter to Boris Pasternak, from Letters: Summer 1926 - Boris Pasternak Marina Tsvetayeva Rainer Maria Rilke (New York Review Books, 2001)

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath; entry no. 102