I refuse to be defeated, so I love

Briony Marshall (Peaceful embrace or the melting of boundaries), Stephan Sinding (To Mennesker), Gustav Vigeland (Kiss), William Zorach (Embrace), Antonio Canova (Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss)

Andrei Tarkovsky: A Poet in the Cinema, 1983 

tenderness is in the hands ― Carolyn Forché, L’Avventura (1960), Ocean Vuong, The White Ribbon (2009), Hart Crane, Gelatin Silver, Love (2009), Ingeborg Bachmann, Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Sylvia Plath, Psycho (1960), Rod McKuen (stills by @forhandsthatsuffer)

Brief Poems, Vera Pavlova

― Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935-1951

Collection

anne carson // paige lewis // la haine (dir. mathieu kassovitz) // anne sexton // frank bidart // dogma (dir. kevin smith).

🎬 The Color of Pomegranates 1969, dir. Sergei Parajanov

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "Maybe, Because Winter is Late" (tr. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)

Les Félins (René Clément), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai), Malcolm T. Liepke, Gustav Vigeland (Eros and Psyche), Stephan Sinding (Adoration), Soul Eom (kiss, hug and die)

Lamb-god by Carolein Smit

work, sometimes, mary oliver / woodworking at the end of the world, ocean vuong

Jack Gilbert, from Collected Poems; “Measuring the Tyger”