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Costume designed by Adrian for Marie Antoinette - 1938 (detail, my scan)

Caroline M. Mar, from "Intelligible"

jean-Jacques Bachelier

‘three fair-cheeked Kharites…from whose eyes as they glanced flowed love that unnerves the limbs’

- hesiod, theogony

The Three Graces - detail from La Primavera, Sandro Botticelli (Uffizi Gallery, Firenze)

“Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can’t read anymore, write.”

— James Baldwin

Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

It seemed more honest to remain silent.

Ingeborg Bachmann, quoted by R. Kolewe in 'Afterletters: From an essay on desire'

"But there are times when man and earth are one, when the pulse of living beats strong, when life is brimming with promise and the future stretches confidently ahead like that road to the hills. Well, I was young..."

J. L. Carr, A Month in the Country (1980)

““Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.” - Haruki Murakami”

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— Franz Kafka, from “The Castle.”

Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Toni Frissell, Frida Kahlo, 1937

John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1 [originally published 1667]

"Feed me blueberries on a Sunday afternoon. We'll call it church"

Brooke Solis

Bellona (detail), Rembrandt, 1633

“We carry the lives we’ve imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost.”

— Helen Macdonald, from H is for Hawk (Grove Press, 2014)

Wendy Cope, "From June to December: Summer Villanelle"

Mary Oliver, from “We Should Be Well Prepared”, Red Bird

shoe details @ laquan smith ss22

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude [ID in alt text]

Pina Bausch, Igor Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' 'Opening"

"Suffering feels religious if you do it right"

Chelsea Hodson; Tonight I'm Someone Else

Mieko Kawakami, from 'Heaven'