spring blush

Watts George Frederic Choosing, possibly 1864 (Detail)

Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Million Dollar Baby (2004) dir. by Clint Eastwood (via violentwavesofemotion)

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert c. April 1868 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Marie Howe, from Magdalene: Poems; “The Seven Devils,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

James Wright, from Exile’s Home: The Poetry of James Wright; “Snowstorm in the Midwest,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

John Berryman, from The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems; “Homage To Mistress Bradstreet,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Louise Norcross c. May 1871 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Virginia Woolf, from Complete Works; “A Terribly Sensitive Mind,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Eavan Boland, from New Collected Poems: “The Woman Turns Herself Into A Fish,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Traci Brimhall, “Aubade with a Broken Neck,” (via oh-girl-among-the-roses)

Wislawa Szymborska, from View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems (via violentwavesofemotion)