April 5, 1913 Letters To Felice By Franz Kafka First Published : 1973

Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring/Summer 1998 Designed By: John Galliano

Margaret Atwood, from a poem titled "Eurydice," featured in Paper Boat: Selected Poems

I love him in the way you love a lighthouse

From a distance

Not expecting warmth

But grateful for the shape of his light

I wrote him into my days

The echo of a soul lesson coming back around

I will meet him in the Center of a life

I already started to build without him

be the surreal nonsense you wish to see in the world

Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Veronica Veronese [1872]

“i thirst for you. don’t walk away from me. tell me everything, even if you have to hurt me a little. no one in the world will love anything you do as much as i do. tell me about the you i love, the one who’s a little shivery. let yourself go. don’t force yourself on me, just because you don’t want to worry or help me. when you strip in front of me, i finally understand why i was born. i love you.”

— Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Correspondance, January 14-15, 1950 [#131]

And then—you walked in.

You, with your glittering chaos.

The oracle who keeps unfolding

Can I still be good and want you?

I like my body when it’s with your body