— Elena Ferrante, From “The Days Of Abandonment.”

Joanna Klink, from Raptus

A clean mind. An anonymous fear submitted to Deep Dark Fears - thanks!

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Spencer Finch - 366, Emily Dickinson’s Miraculous Year (2009)

This work is based on Emily Dickinson in 1862, when she wrote 366 poems in 365 days. It is a real-time memorial to that year, which burns for exactly one year. The sculpture is comprised of 366 individual candles arranged in a linear sequence, each of which burns for 24 hours. The colour of each candle matches a colour mentioned in the corresponding poem. For the poems in which no colour is mentioned, the candles are made out of natural paraffin.

me, looking back on it all:

Ta-Nehisi Coates, from Between the World and Me

Text ID: The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free.

James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

you’ll hear me howling outside your door

— Ocean Vuong in conversation with Spencer Quong