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Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

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Audre Lorde, from The Black Unicorn: Poems; “Recreation”

[Text ID: “my body / writes into your flesh / the poem / you make of me.���]

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Joy Sullivan, from “At the Airport”, Instructions for Traveling West

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John Derian

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A quiet moment in Provence Photographed by Jo Rodgers

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Perfection is cold.

Imperfection gives life.

I love the imaginary

the way a monk can love

God.

The imaginary is my refuge

my palace.

- Niki de Saint Phalle.

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"Fall in love with yourself, with life and then with whoever you want" Frida Kahlo.

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"I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love."

Françoise Sagan

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My heart is a cathedral. Widows, ghosts and lovers sit and sing in the dark, arched marrow of me.

Segovia Amil

Photograph of the artist and photographer Dora Maar.

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Joy Sullivan, “Want", Instructions for Traveling West

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Simone Collinet (also known as Simone Breton) née Kahn (1897 - 1980)

... "Simone Kahn’s advocacy of the art of her time and her link with the surrealists did not cease with her divorce from the poet. After the Second World War, she fervently supported artists by opening two galleries in Paris, first Artist and Artisan, opened in 1948, and then the Furstenberg Gallery, which hosted more than fifty events between 1954 and 1965. At the latter institution in 1962, she mounted the exhibition Le Surréalisme, featuring works by surrealists of the early generations, including E. L. T. Mesens, Dorothea Tanning, Toyen, and Max Ernst, as well as those by younger talents, like Jean-Jacques Lebel, Avigdor Arikha, and William Nelson Copley." https://www.dfk-paris.org/en/research-project/simone-kahn-surrealistin-sammlerin-und-galeristin-2943.html

Photograph by Man Ray 1930.

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Simone Collinet (also known as Simone Breton) née Kahn (1897 - 1980)

... "Simone Kahn’s advocacy of the art of her time and her link with the surrealists did not cease with her divorce from the poet. After the Second World War, she fervently supported artists by opening two galleries in Paris, first Artist and Artisan, opened in 1948, and then the Furstenberg Gallery, which hosted more than fifty events between 1954 and 1965. At the latter institution in 1962, she mounted the exhibition Le Surréalisme, featuring works by surrealists of the early generations, including E. L. T. Mesens, Dorothea Tanning, Toyen, and Max Ernst, as well as those by younger talents, like Jean-Jacques Lebel, Avigdor Arikha, and William Nelson Copley." https://www.dfk-paris.org/en/research-project/simone-kahn-surrealistin-sammlerin-und-galeristin-2943.html

Photograph by Man Ray 1930.

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Sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington.

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Sylvia Kristel, captured by photographer Melvin Sokolsky. 1977

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Constantin Joffé

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I will read long books and the journals of dead writers. I will feel closer to them than I ever felt to people I used to know before I withdrew from the world. It will be sweet and cool this friendship of mine with dead poets, for I won’t have to touch them or answer their questions. They will talk to me and not expect me to answer. And I’ll get sleepy listening to their voices explaining the mysteries to me. I’ll fall asleep with the book still in my fingers, and it will rain.

Tennessee Williams, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

The painting is "The Novel" by Herman Jean Joseph Richir, circa 1925.