serpents in my mind

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

— Elizabeth Bishop, from a letter to Joseph Summers featured in One Art: Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)

sevdaliza !!

Cinema Paradiso (1988), Giuseppe Tornatore

May Sarton, from "She Shall Be Called Woman", Selected Poems

will you?

[Text ID: I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.]

— Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren c. November 1949

[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.]

Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Joaquin Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940

Clarice Lispector, from The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector; "Brasília,"

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947-1955

D.H. Lawrence, from "The Plumbed Serpent" in The Complete Works

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment