ODI•ET•AMO

Economics at Columbia in NYC “..fuck hustling backwards…” Not interested, not here to simp.

[theoptia]

Ingeborg Bachmann, from Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems; “Darkness Spoken”

Text ID: Like Orpheus I play / death on the strings of life

[sixpenceee]

This beating heart coin carved by Roman Booteen is absolutely wild | source                          

[florial]

[aletheyass]

Head of Apollo found on the Basilica di S. Stefano/Villa degli Anicii site, Rome.

via @/anticaeviae

[macrolit]

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

— Cormac McCarthy (b. 20 July 1933)

[mournfulroses]

Catherynne M. Valente, from her novel titled "Six-Gun Snow White," originally published in 2013

[thafreedomwall]

Out of Africa

[portalibis]

Mercury (Hermes) in Roman relief. From Herculaneum, 1st century AD (?), National Archaeological Museum, Naples

[historicl]

Lock, 1911 Frank L. Koralewsky

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

[miamlsunshine]

[eatmangoesnekkid]

“People always say ‘pain grows you.’ But I say, ‘so does love!’ Love grows us. Feeling adored, well-cared, and inclining towards softness also grow us. Bathing in your affirmation of choice nourishes your efforts.”

— India Ame’ye, Author 

[roua-poemului]

“after fury, what do you do with the remains”

— Maya Philips, “The Kindly Ones,” published in Anomaly.

[jaerod]

I’m watching The Odyssey with my sister tonight… I already know I’m going to hate it

[sahlesummerhill]

[expressions-of-nature]

Dolgiye Mountains, Russia by Arseny Kashkarov

[theoptia]

Ta-Nehisi Coates, from The Message

Text ID: your mind expands as the dark end of your imagination blooms, and you wonder if human depravity has any bottom at all,

[macrolit]

“The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.”

— The Light That Failed, Rudyard Kipling (b. 30 December 1865)