Jezebel

𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠.

[irenelichtensteinblog]

Leonid Yablonsky, Solar Shower, 1966 via Kena McKae

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Philippe Halsman, 1952.

[mournfulroses]

Patricia A. McKillip, from her book titled "The Book of Atrix Wolfe," originally published in 1995

[derangedrhythms]

your name written inside me.

Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems; from ‘I check for you in the wind’, tr. Patricio Ferrari & Forrest Gander

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by David Cicero, 1951.

[shisasan]

a round-shaped interior doorway with an art nouveau design from the 1930’s

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3. (1923-1927)

[banhmigoddess]

you don’t need to reinvent yourself this summer; you simply need to return to the things that make you feel most like you

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by George Barris, June, 1962.

[autumnalsonata-deactivated20190]

“He was in her thoughts – a deep tender sultry garden.”

— Alexander Blok, from Poems of Sophia: “Crossroads”

[peelingmandarins]

translations of Sappho (from Sappho’s Lyre by Diane J. Rayor / Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson)

[expressions-of-nature]

Maruike Pond, Japan by Sakutaro

[archivedeathdrive]

Pete Doherty, Hevan’s Banquet Hall, Toronto, Ontario, 2001

[ethersoul]

Dudipatsar lake, Valley of Kaghan (Pakistan)

[laetitiacastaphotos]

Laetitia Casta closing the Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Spring/Summer 1999 show as the floral bride.

That year she was chosen to wear a gown entirely made of delicate silk flowers. When she was asked what she wanted to wear, Laetitia said: “I want to wear flowers.”

[24kblk]

rene burri, ballet school at the instituto bellas artes. havana, cuba. 2007

[minima--moralia]

“And life, I swear, is beautiful.”

— Clarice Lispector, in an excerpt from a crônica called The Discovery of the World, 6 July 1968, featured in The Paris Review, 1 August 2022