“I’m waiting for you, I’m waiting for the evening calm, I’m waiting for our time, the oblique light, this pause between day and night. Peace will come, surely. But I can imagine no other peace than that of our two bodies bound together, of our gaze given over to each other - I have no other homeland but you.”
— Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, July 17, 1949 [#71]
There’s only one thing I want, don’t make me say it, just get me bandages, I’m bleeding.
-Richard Siken, Wishbone
Gabriela Mistral, from a letter to Doris Dana c. January 1950 (translated by Velma García-Gorena)
Venetta Octavia, from “I Set It in Stone”
‘Plainwater: Essays and Poetry,’ Anne Carson
The Witchs’ Mirror (El Espejo De La Bruja, Chano Urueta, 1960)
“Your heart beats in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God’s… The divine magnet is in you, and my magnet responds.”
— Moby-Dick author Herman Melville’s little-known, passionate, beautiful, heartbreaking love letters to his literary hero and neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne. (via nedfelix)
the murder of abel by jacopo tintoretto; naruto: vol.26 chapter 227
dream diary + i-D magazine
wrestlers in 1895 // wrestlers (1899), thomas eakins
Achilles Come Down, Gang of Youths, 2017 // Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus, Gavin Hamilton, 1763
Crush, Richard Siken (2005) / The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet, Frederic Leighton (1853-55)
“I was carving my name into your side and you were calling me soft, calling me gentle. I do not think you were paying attention.”
— Trista Mateer, from “For the One Who Loved My Hands More than Anything Else,” The Dogs I Have Kissed
