The World in Color

— ʀ.ᴛ.

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

James Joyce, from a letter to Nora Barnacle Joyce, featured in The Selected Letters of James Joyce

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "To Drink," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

Franz Kafka, 1912

— T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

E. E. Cummings

Gauthier, Une sculpture en cire de Degas, Petite danseuse de 14 ans, XIXe siècle

Edgar Degas

𝔟𝔩𝔲𝔢 𝔥𝔞𝔷𝔢

— Brenna Twohy, "I Know It's a Little Late," Forgive Me My Salt (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

— via whoriyat

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.” ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History