Nah Bro, You Live In A Society, I Live In A Homoerotic Victorian Romance Novel

I was so pleased to be seen

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

“Then when G-d asks [Cain], ‘Where is your brother Abel?’ he arrogantly responds, ‘I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?’ In essence, the entire Bible is written as an affirmative response to this question.”

— Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy (via levoneh)

in 2005, bon iver locked himself in a log cabin in wisconsin for a now-legendary vibe check

How imagining death can make it easier 

to live and I agree and say, It’s called die

before you die.

- Ada Limón, The Long Ride

‘Agamemnon,’ Aeschylus (translated by Anne Carson)

from behind a / pillar / of unarrived / moments

- Zofia Zarębianka, tr. Regina Grol

Sharon Olds, “True Love”

and how it's hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.

Ada Limón, Mowing

burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

For, when what he knows as art is relegated to the museum and gallery, the unconquerable impulse towards experiences enjoyable in themselves finds such outlet as the daily environment provides.

- John Dewey, Art as Experience