sophia

[serratedpens]

Melissa Febos, Abandon Me

[desology]

[surqrised]

“I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.”

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

[galina]

a little cafe hidden away in the undercroft near our flat, which I’ve been visiting on my morning walk

[ancientorigins]

Unearthing the marble sculpture head of Artemis from the fourth century BC in ancient Greek city of Alabanda, Minor Asia, Modern Turkey.

[yourlocalnymphh]

D.L. Smith

[daughterofliterature-deactivate]

“I wish you to know

that you have been the last dream of my soul.”

—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

[noorshirazie]

“Poem that opened you– The opposite of a wound. Didn’t the world Come pouring through?”

— Gregory Orr, How Beautiful the Beloved

[poetryofmanya]

T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland.

[kameliendame]

Akane Takada

ph. Tristram Kenton

[v-ersacrum]

Leonardo da Vinci, Head of Leda (detail), 1504-1506

[feral-ballad]

If you’re afraid to write it, / that’s a good sign. / I suppose you know you’re writing the / truth when you’re terrified.

Yrsa Daley-Ward, from bone; “Untitled 1”

[25-22-deactivated20230409]

[fluentisonus]

genuinely genuinely love this bit in Lucretius where he's like 'if the world's so old, then where are the poems? why don't we remember them?'

[threeamserif]

"Fifteen years had passed since we last laid eyes upon each other. I had fallen asleep in his arms and woken to cold ashes, a desolate dawn."

- Ariadne (2021) p. 334, Jennifer Saint (pub. Wildfire)

[soft-lovely]

the midnight library

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day:  θεομαχέω, to fight against the gods