james baldwin, just above my head
Empress Elisabeth of Austria by Franz Schrotzberg (details)
you guys have to be nice to me because nobody has ever told me i’ve bewitched them body and soul
Eartha Kitt backstage, 1959.
— Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors, Richard Siken
[text ID: To make something / beautiful should be enough. It isn’t. It should be.]
journal entry - 8.17.22
“what is something that is always true?”
a love so nice its echoed in dreams!!
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
Pine to Sound, Nancy Kuhl
““I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.”— Anne Sexton, in a letter to W.D. Snodgrass (November 28, 1958)
everything is so so significant to me how am i supposed to live
the thing is by Ellen Bass
A Savage Garden, Dante Émile. From WELL-LOVED BLOOD.
[text ID: This forceful metamorphosis we must endure will turn sweet in your hands. / Miraculous changeling, I’d like to trap every movement of your mouth in amber. /end ID]









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