-Vera Pavlova, from poem: “A Weight on My Back.”
(Painting: Vincent Van Gogh Tree Root 1890, oil painting reproduction)
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-Vera Pavlova, from poem: “A Weight on My Back.”
(Painting: Vincent Van Gogh Tree Root 1890, oil painting reproduction)
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
-James Agee, Essay: “Knoxville: Summer of 1915.”
-Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath - July 1950 - July 1953
-Forough Farrokhzad, Window.
-Excerpted from Marlowe Granados', Happy Hour
-Albert Camus, to Maria. Casarès, Correspondance, February 5, 1950 [#170]
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
-Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
-Franz Kafka's Diaries, 1910-1923
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera; from ‘Lots of Guns: An Oratorio for Five Voices’
(This quote ties flawlessly into the novel I am writing. It is absolutely perfect. Thought I’d share.)
Do you ever read a quote so good you want that thing tattooed on your soul?
Me too.