“He Looks At Me With The Softest Eyes That I Have Ever Known.”

— Anna Akhmatova, The Guest

[text ID: "What do you want?" I asked. / "To be with you in hell," he said.]

Matthew Dickman, from “Montpelier” [ID in ALT]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk Florence and the Machine, from Various Storms & Saints Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

Heart imagery by Andrea Zanatelli Eye with Tear (oil paint and resin tear on canvas) by Nancy Fouts Douleur d'amour (detail) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

David Foster Wallace // Mary Oliver

Frustration / longing / love

Medea, Euripides//Olivia, Dorothy Bussy

“I will lose you. It is written into this poem the way the fisherman’s wife knits his death into the sweater.”

— Gregory Orr, “The Sweater,” The Caged Owl: New & Selected Poems

“We are all the dead. I am not apart from you for long, except for breath, except for everything.”

— Forgotten Portraits by Janine Solursh (via decreation)

— Dogfish, Mary Oliver