― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

ANNIE MURPHY as Ruth Brenner in RUSSIAN DOLL - 2.02 “Coney Island Baby”

collage work by paw grabowski (oejerum)

“Whatever it was I lost, whatever I wept for Was a wild, gentle thing, the small dark eyes Loving me in secret.”

— James Wright, “Milkweed,” from The Branch Will Not Break (Wesleyan University Press, 1972)

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

“Where does such tenderness come from?”

1.Marina Tsvetaeva / 2.open house 1998 / 3.Sylvia Plath / 4.Joseph Lorusso / 5.Pablo Neruda / 6.Malcolm T. Liepke / 7.Ocean Vuong / 8.Joseph Lorusso / 9.Richard Siken / 10.Ron Hicks / 11.Mary Ann Samyn / 12.Ron Hicks / 13.May Sarton / 14.Joseph Lorusso / 15.Ivan Malkovych / 16.Ocean Vuong / 17.Breathless, Godard, 1960 / 18.Boris Pasternak / 19.Holly Warburton / 20.Mary Jo Bang / 21.Holly Warburton / 22.Susan Sontag

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Diamond, nephrite, and rock crystal lily of the valley brooch (at 1stdibs)

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West (c. October 1928)

Phoebe Bridgers, Moon Song

Franz Kafka (misattributed)

Leo Brynielsson, The Moon Has Fallen

Mitski, Happy

Richard Siken, Anyway

Richard Monckton Milnes, Lady Moon

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hymn to the Moon

It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) dir. Frank Capra

Rumi, Some Kiss We Want

George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Margaret Atwood, Owl and Pussycat, Some Years Later

The snow outside - Kaoru Yamada 

Japanese , b. 1975 -