one night, a lifetime ago, he kissed her hand

Reading, 1986 by Guy Le Baube

L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961) dir. Alain Resnais

— D. Nurske, from section I of “A Couple in Garden City,” The Fall: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)

— Anne Sexton, from “The Twelve-Thousand-Day Honeymoon” in The Complete Poems  (via exoticwild)

A Tale of Springtime (1990) dir. Éric Rohmer

Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Véra Nabokov, 12 January 1924, Letters to Véra, ed. and transl. Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014)

Agnès Varda - Jane B. par Agnès V. (1987)

Marcel Proust’s letter to Reynaldo Hahn on his loved one who drowned in the Mediterranean in 1914.

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz written c. May 1922 (via violentwavesofemotion)

When we un-packed it, the Paris curator was embarrassed to discover lipstick marks on its cheek: someone in the Louvre had played at being Pygmalion—or Hadrian—and kissed it. And who could blame them? Up on a pedestal, center stage, the effect of its beauty was jaw-dropping.

Alejandra Pizarnik, from Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 (tr. Yvette Siegert)  (via anintimacy)

by Thomas Penny

© Danielle Voirin 

Claude Monet - 11 Étretat, Sunset, c. 1882-3.

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