I am the Most Interesting Book of All

Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,"

Charles Baudelaire, "Afternoon Song," from Les Fleurs du mal

Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole performing on a 1955 episode of 'Ford Star Jubilee,' New York.

"A Shirt Made of Fire", Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)

Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson

Ernest Hemingway, from "Garden of Eden," originally published in 1986

— Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena (via lumamonchtuna)

Albert Camus, from a diary entry featured in Notebooks, 1935-1942

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter featured in Letters to Merline, 1919-1922

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter featured in Letters to Merline, 1919-1922

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"How can I ...?", Eghishe Charents (translated by metamorphesque)

October After Glow (John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1885)

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, “To the Desert” from Dark and Perfect (El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 1995) (via lunamonchtuna)