Sleep Is The First House

Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust

Anne Truitt, from a diary entry featured in Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Marie Antoinette (2006), dir. Sofia Coppola

Glass Sculpture By Hennie Elzinga.

I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone.

— Gustave Flaubert in correspondence with George Sand; Croisset, 12 November 1866, Monday night, from Selected Letters

“Abandon yourself (…) abandon your heavy legs to the floating meadows,”

— Mary Szybist, From Incarnadine: Poems; “The lushness of it” (via feral-ballad)

— Rebecca Tamás, from “Witch.”

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to David Gurewitsch featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

Cleveland Trust building, stairs. Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White, 1929.