Marie Antoinette (2006), Dir. Sofia Coppola

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

I guess real connection is so rare nowadays that any connection at all feels cosmic

For better or worse, I hold on to that

And I cannot ascribe meaning to anything when the landscape of meaning is ever-shifting

But, god, do I try

[She] looked as if she had been carved out of a single pearl.

Angela Carter, "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.

Lou Andreas-Salomé, from Looking Back: Memoirs; translated by Breon Mitchell

Text ID: Human life—indeed all life—is poetry. It is we who live it, unconsciously, day by day, like scenes in a play, yet in its inviolable wholeness it lives us, it composes us. There is something far different from the old cliche "Turn your life into a work of art"; we are works of art-but we are not the artist.

April, 1935 Journals of Anais Nin 1934-1939  [volume 2]

Devilman デビルマン (1986) Illustrated By: Go Nagai

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

musings on april

Sylvia Plath (Leon Dabo), Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Naguib Mahfouz (Edgar Degas), E. E. Cummings (Édouard Manet), Rabindranath Tagore, T. S. Eliot (Edgar Degas), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Alphonse Osbert)