30 March, 1927 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)
Daphne du Maurier, from Rebecca
Text ID: A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.
She wanted to scream, but a person who is alone—alone in the absolute sense of the word—does not scream out her despair; it is useless. Deserts do not hear. But she can do things with her hands which even a desert must notice. She can tear at the sand until the desert bleeds.
– Stig Dagerman, from “Men of Character,” The Games of Night (Quartet, 1986)
D. H. Lawrence, from The Complete Novels and Writings of D. H. Lawrence
— triata mateer, honeybee
Marie Antoinette (2006), dir. Sofia Coppola
“Abandon yourself (…) abandon your heavy legs to the floating meadows,”
— Mary Szybist, From Incarnadine: Poems; “The lushness of it” (via feral-ballad)
A young boy carries his slingshot around his neck and wears cherries like earrings in Gilgit, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Ric Ergenbright
Margarita Aliger on Anna Akhmatova, from a diary entry featured in Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova
Chris Abani, from "Terminus", 3 poems pub. Air Light Magazine [transcript in ALT]
Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring/Summer 1998 Designed By: John Galliano