— Louise Glück, from “Timor Mortis.”

— Jane Austen

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

Sleepers, Limerick, Pa., 1970.Credit By Donna Gottschalk

Amour, 2012

Anaïs Nin, from Incest: From a Journal of Love

Ada Limón, from “Late Summer after a Panic Attack”

Cameron Awkward-Rich, from "Another Middle-Class Black Kid Tries to Name It" [transcript in ALT]

Marco Pandullo

1: George Romney // 2: Beatrice Offor // 3/4: John William Waterhouse

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

Anna Akhmatova, from “The Fisherman.” (excerpt from “To The Muse”, in Evening), The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Expanded Edition, trans. Judith Hemschemeyer (via soracities)

isolated houses - john divola

[ID: “Sometimes your tongue is removed, sometimes you still it of your own accord. Sometimes you live, sometimes you die. Sometimes you have a name, sometimes you are named for what—not who—you are. The story always looks a little different, depending on who is telling it. There is a Quichua riddle: El que me nombra, me rompe. Whatever names me, breaks me. The solution, of course, is “silence.” But the truth is, anyone who knows your name can break you in two.]

Perhaps I am not bringing my pen and marker into innocent books. Perhaps this is revenge.

Van Halen, "Push Comes to Shove" | Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray | Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird (script) | The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself, episode 8 | Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away (transcription) | @h-isforhiatus | Mitski, "Remember My Name" | Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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— Claire Schwartz, from Bound