his sense of champagne chic

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So, I say, what of the night, the terrible night?

Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (via proustitute)

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The New Literature of America, 1928.

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The picture must radiate light, the bodies have their own light which they consume to live; they burn, they are not lit from outside.

-Egon Schiele, from a letter written in 1912 to Dr. E, explaining his painting “Revelation” (via lastwaltzinvienna, yama-bato)

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"the world is brittle, seamed with cracks, ready to shatter."

-Denise Levertov, from "The Passing Bell"

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"Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet."

-Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

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anticipatedstranger:

Marianne Moore, Poems, from The Egoist Press, 1921.

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"Those various sounds consistently indistinct, like intermingled echoes    struck from thin glass successively at random--"

-Marianne Moore, from "Those Various Scalpels"

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"stories run through my body and purr in my lap..."

-Gabriela Mistral, "The Storyteller"

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silent-films:

The Wind, 1928.

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"Do not move forward, do not move a finger. Waiting is perfection, a rapture of your own devising, these shallow breaths taken out of time, before the sinking in of things, before the body ruins everything."

-Kimberly Johnson, from "The Kiss"

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anticipatedstranger:

Ezra Pound Selected Poems book cover by Alvin Lustig via Scott Lindberg on Flickr.

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"My reaction was a lot like what we feel from attempts to paint unreality in a pleasant way."

-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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This luminosity does not negate reason or any rational sense. It simply exists. I am not ‘right,’ rather I had an internal experience, a state of awareness. A kind of poetic sensibility open to the world, to everything—grand and small.

Anna Kamienska, from The Notebook: 1965-72 in Astonishments, trans. Curzon and Drabik (via proustitute)

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Yves Klein, Untitled Anthropometry (ANT 100), c. 1960. 

(Via Declan Mccullagh Photography)

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"Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief."

-Rae Armantrout, from "Outer"

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bookatticded:

New York Restaurant

—Edward Hopper 1922

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"how many moments must(amazing each how many centuries)these more than eyes restroll and stroll some never deepening beach"

-e.e. cummings, "how many moments must"