Wheres That Quote From A Letter Melville Wrote To Hawthrone That Always Manages To Makes Me Insane

on loneliness

Amy Dunne // Nickie Zimov // Carol Lee, To Die For // Marie Alsing // Anne Sexton, A Self Portrait in Letters // As Tears Go By (1988) dir. Wong Kar Wai // Fyodor Dostoevsky in a letter to his wife Anna Dostoevsky, 28 August 1879 // Aron Wiesenfeld // Margaret Atwood, from “Thoughts From Underground”

GOD SURPASSES US AS THE BEST LOVER.

Visions of Ecstasy (1989) dir. Nigel Wingrove / Léonard Bellivaux, Mary Magdalene in Adoration before the Crown of Thorns, 1866 / Philippe de Champaigne, Le Christ mort couché sur son linceul (detail), 1654 / Francesco Vanni, Saint Catherine Drinks the Blood of Christ (detail), 1594 / Francesco Hayez, Crucifixion with Mary Magdalene Kneeling and Weeping (detail), 1827 / Jean-Luc Marion, The Erotic Phenomenon.

Richard Hugo, Essay on Poetic Theory: The Triggering Town

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M. A. Thompson - I Won’t Write My Poem ‘Till I’m In My Right Mind X

Mary Oliver X

Richard Siken - road music

George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) in her letter to Gustave Flaubert X

Ada Limón - The Carrying X

Nikki Giovanni - Mirrors X

“I just want to be kind in a world that isn’t”

“walking down your authentic path can be one of the loneliest roads to travel on because the longer you’re on it, the more you realize that only a select few will be compatible with who you are with no mask on.”

— billy chapata

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

L. A. Johnson, from "Birthmark"

— Elena Ferrante, from “The Days of Abandonment.”

SARAH SNOOK at the 2022 HBO Post-Emmy Awards Reception in California. By Mark Leibowitz.

James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk