On Love And Being Haunted

Lost Girlhood and the Photography of Justine Kurland

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte / “Forest”, Justine Kurland / “Touch Up”, Mother Mother / “Candy Toss,” Justine Kurland / bunnyhauntingthedollshouse / “Poison Ivy”, Justine Kurland / “seven”, Taylor Swift / “Kung Fu Fighters”, Justine Kurland

André Aciman

if we forgive our fathers, what do you we have left?

shameless // Desireé Dallagiacomo // Jamaica Kincaid // euphoria // jobless monday, mitski // Haddon Sandblom // ? // the end of the f world //Smoke Signals // Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

when you love so much you let it consume you

richard siken - litany in which certain things are crossed out / robert mapplethorpe - white gauze / hsin wang - de-selfing series / benjamin alire saenz - aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe / florence and the machine - moderation / hillary mantel - wolf hall / marina abramović and ulay - rest energy / placebo - every you every me / halsey - graveyard / florence and the machine - hardest of hearts / @cvatik / hole - violet / brooke didonato / halsey - whispers (iichliwp website) / richard siken - planet of love / unknown / florence welch - body of water

Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from “Captive”, Sin

Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours: Love Poems to God; from ‘Gott spricht zu jedem nur, eh er ihn macht’, tr. Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”

— R. Arnold

“Do not be afraid to suffer, give the heaviness back to the weight of the earth; mountains are heavy, seas are heavy. Even those trees you planted as children became too heavy long ago - you couldn’t carry them now. But you can carry the winds… and the open spaces…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by Robert Bly

this gets me every time.

the song of achilles, madeline miller