Temporary Palaces

W.S. Merwin, from Variations To The Accompaniment Of A Cloud in “Garden Time" (via adrasteiax)

— Frida Kahlo, The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas

Ingeborg Bachmann, A Kind of Loss (via metamorphesque)

T.S. Eliot, from “The Wasteland: What the Thunder Said”

Sarah Waters, from The Little Stranger (via adrasteiax)

Depsy Boutris, from “In a Dream We Both Have,” The American Poetry Review (vol. 51, no. 1, January/February 2022)

Lawrence Durrell, from Clea: Alexandria Quartet

Joel Barish, from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Focus Features, 2004)

Louise Glück, excerpt of Vespers : Parousia (via antigonick)

Ada Limon, from “The Hurting Kind,” The Hurting Kind: Poems

Anaïs Nin 

F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to Ginevra King

Rickey Laurentiis, from “King of Shade, King of Scorpions,” Whipped (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2013)

Izumi Shikibu, excerpt of “Even If I Now Saw You—”  (via antigonick)

Naomi Kawase, from the screenplay Radiance (Comme des Cinéma & Kino Films, 2017)

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Julia Kristeva tr. Leon S. Roudiez (via holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe)