bildungsroman.

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters

friends 4ever

[Text ID: To tell a story by not telling it—]

The Flies, Jean-Paul Sartre | Yes And, Bojack Horseman; edit created by @haleyincarnate | The Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson 

Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuinston | Alegoría de la Caridad, Francisco de Zurbarán | Portrait of Saint Augustine, Philippe de Champaigne | Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov tr. Hugh Aplin | Portrait of a Lady on Fire dir. Céline Sciamma | If Not, Winter, Sappho tr. Anne Carson | War of the Foxes, Richard Siken | Figura alegórica de la Caridad, Simon Vouet | Mercy, Andrea Dworkin

Just don’t stop”

conditions of love: the philosophy of intimacy

[Text ID: maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.]

“L'offrande”, by Malvina Hoffman. The Offering Gertrude Nason Carver New York: The John Lane Co., 1922.

Marie Howe, The Affliction

Yves Olade, When Rome Falls

— Anaïs Nin, from Nearer the Moon: The Previously Unpublished Unexpurgated Diary, 1937-1939

— Christa Wolf, from Medea: A Modern Retelling (tr. John Cullen)

Canadian artist

Resmaa Menakem, In an Interview by Krista Tippett

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)

— Octavio Paz, from “Identical Time”, The Poems of Octavio Paz (via wordscanbeenough)