Irises In Monet's Garden | Claude Monet, 1900

Franz Kafka, 1912

William Mason Brown (1828-1898) "Raspberries in a Wooded Landscape" Oil on canvas Located in the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

i love the conclave. what do you mean the entire world has tv cameras trained on the chimney of an old italian palace waiting for days or weeks until the color of the smoke changes and we find out who’s been elected as the next supreme dictator of catholicism

OCCUPATION: was High King of the Noldor

CAUSE OF DEATH: was High King of the Noldor

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

RETURN TO CRANFORD William Buxton

Ada Limon said,  “I haven’t given up on trying to live a good life, a really good one even.” and “I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.” and  Anis Mojgani said, “Will I be something? Am I something? and the answer comes: You already are. You always were. And you still have time to be.”

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

Separation, W. S. Merwin