I am the Most Interesting Book of All

Kat IG: lesfleurdumal04 Fine Arts Poetry and Literature Lover

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,"

[undinesea]

You tear me open, dark beauty, With derisive laughter, And then look at my heart With eyes as soft as moonlight

Charles Baudelaire, "Afternoon Song," from Les Fleurs du mal

[citizenscreen]

Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole performing on a 1955 episode of 'Ford Star Jubilee,' New York.

[metamorphesque]

"A Shirt Made of Fire", Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)

[orpheuslament]

Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson

[our--impossible--love]

[mournfulroses]

Ernest Hemingway, from "Garden of Eden," originally published in 1986

[lunamonchtuna]

— Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena (via lumamonchtuna)

[tanyaaloves]

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a diary entry featured in Notebooks, 1935-1942

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter featured in Letters to Merline, 1919-1922

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter featured in Letters to Merline, 1919-1922

[aaaangel444]

[ohlivee]

ash bishop

[metamorphesque]

"How can I ...?", Eghishe Charents (translated by metamorphesque)

[venustapolis]

October After Glow (John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1885)

[lunamonchtuna]

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, “To the Desert” from Dark and Perfect (El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 1995) (via lunamonchtuna)