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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, from a letter featured in The Life & Letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.”
— William James, Memories and Studies
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. by Hugh Aplin, from "Poor People," originally written in 1846
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Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student
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The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir // Brokeback Mountain (2005) // Moon Song, Phoebe Bridgers // The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir // A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes // A Ghost Story (2017) // The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir // Candy (2006) // Letters to Vera, Vladimir Nabokov.
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I’ve been the shadow of your shadow
Richard Siken, Peter Wever, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ada Limón, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Richard Siken, @maieste, Madeline Miller, Holly Warburton, Shauna Barbosa, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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— Ganymede, Jericho Brown, in '100 Queer Poems, an anthology' (2022)
[text ID: I mean, don't you want God / To want you? Don't you dream / Of someone with wings taking you / Up?]
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"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)
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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. July 1907
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Maggie Smith as the fairy queen Titania, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1977)
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The relation between nature and human being: Agnieszka Lepka
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Your close proximity a remedy to my every wound
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