I entered this world on the Champs-Elysees, 1959.

Elton Glaser, from a poem titled “And In The Afternoons I Botanized,” featured in Parnassus

US Embassy reading room, Budapest, 1988. From the Budapest municipal photography company archive.

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert featured in The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson

— Jennifer S. Cheng, So We Must Meet Apart

'Sultry Day' by Paul Landacre, 1935

— Clementine von Radics

Kamome Diner (Naoko Ogigami, 2006)

Oil on canvas

Ada Limón, “To Be Made Whole”, On Being with Krista Tippett

Got it (via @cafreiman)

[Text ID: “I would have preferred if you had loved me less and understood me more.”]

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Piet Mondian, Blue Tree, 1908