sorry about the blood in your mouth. i wish it was mine.

Mary Oliver, "Flare"

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a journal entry featured in The Early Journals of Rainer Maria Rilke

— Hélène Cixous, from The Book of Promethea, tr. by Betsy Wing (University of Nebraska Press, 1991)

Olga Knipper-Chekhova, from a letter to Anton Chekhov featured in The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

Cecilia Martinez, from a poem titled "Winter Then," featured in A Magnificently Ordinary Romance: Poems

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

Seraphine Saintclair, “Bramble Eyed”

Aria Aber, from Hard Damage; “Operation Cyclone”

Seraphine Saintclair, “Bramble Eyed”

“Star Robed Silence” by Seraphine Saintclair

Fragment of cotton, katazome dyed, Japan, late 19th century

Charles Baudelaire, “The Void”

via

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

as simple as that