You tear me open, dark beauty,
With derisive laughter,
And then look at my heart
With eyes as soft as moonlight
Charles Baudelaire, "Afternoon Song," from Les Fleurs du mal
242 notes
·
View notes
Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole performing on a 1955 episode of 'Ford Star Jubilee,' New York.
864 notes
·
View notes
"A Shirt Made of Fire", Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)
7K notes
·
View notes
Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson
9K notes
·
View notes
381 notes
·
View notes
Ernest Hemingway, from "Garden of Eden," originally published in 1986
5K notes
·
View notes
— Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena (via lumamonchtuna)
5K notes
·
View notes
26K notes
·
View notes
Albert Camus, from a diary entry featured in Notebooks, 1935-1942
914 notes
·
View notes
Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter featured in Letters to Merline, 1919-1922
456 notes
·
View notes
Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter featured in Letters to Merline, 1919-1922
641 notes
·
View notes
833 notes
·
View notes
ash bishop
3K notes
·
View notes
"How can I ...?", Eghishe Charents (translated by metamorphesque)
929 notes
·
View notes
October After Glow (John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1885)
355 notes
·
View notes
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, “To the Desert” from Dark and Perfect (El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 1995) (via lunamonchtuna)
5K notes
·
View notes
Albert Camus, from a letter to Maria Casarès written in August 1948
3K notes
·
View notes