on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur

from The Hungarian National Museum

— July 9, 1912 / Franz Kafka diaries

"Perhaps Brod’s elision of passages that could be read as homoerotic has ultimately drawn more attention to them than they otherwise would have received—still, this very elision suggests that these passages threatened the image of Kafka that Brod was striving to construct." — from translator's preface

Who By Fire - Leonard Cohen

via

obligatory neck tattoo drawing

___hyeoni

Ordinary Sacramento Californian photographer Enoch Ku in his ongoing project captures the quirkiness of the otherwise mundane urban landscape of Sacramento, California. 

this image came to me in a dream

next year all our troubles will be out of sight

Mary Oliver, Orion

❛ For / assuming there is / such a secret, yes / for that / most of all. Denise Levertov, who died #OTD in 1997.

vintage brooch

lol

Dárda street, Budapest, 1972. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive. 

Then we came out to the midday sun, and caught her down by the harbour, where the frost mist hung low above the fjord. But the sky was clear and blue, with the sun resting close to the horizon. Almost like in the painting, but today the sun was warm and dark in colour, painting the buildings golden round us. I think maybe everything will be all right after all.

*for brevima, breuma = brevissima

Gravitations (Jules Supervielle, 1925).