Marie Howe, from “Memorial”, What the Living Do

— Albert Camus, from his preface to Jean Grenier’s “Les Iles,” c. 1959

— Marcus Aurelius (via memoryslandscape)

Leonard Cohen writes to Marianne Ihlen on her deathbed He followed her into the dusk, just a season behind.

sandro botticelli, dante and beatrice in stars

Clarice Lispector, from Selected Cronicas

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

i think about this paragraph from geoff rickly’s book allllll the time

— Gustave Flaubert, from a letter to Louise Colet (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

An Interview with Richard Siken

by Hieronymus Bosch /detail/

Text ID: beneath the proverbial opal / of monastic twilights,