Edvard Munch, The Kiss, 1897.

Theodore Roethke, from "Vernal Sentiment", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

Grief in Three Bodies: A Conversation by Victoria Chang, Prageeta Sharma & Khaty Xiong

— fatima aamer bilal, from being unwanted is a language

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

— Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals”

Anne Sexton ("The Truth the Dead Know") Charlotte Eriksson (Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself)

—Tales From Earthsea: Dragonfly, by Ursula Le Guin

[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.]

D.W. Winnicott

Olivia Laing, The Lonely City

Olivia Laing, The Lonely City (via soracities)

my favourite thing about buying books secondhand is finding the things people used as bookmarks in books that they never finished. here’s some of my favourite things that i’ve found!

Katharina Fritsch, Tischgesellschaft, 1988

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— Renée Brock, tr. by Linkhorn and Judy Cochran, from “Streets, A Song,” (via violentwavesofemotion)