Behind the Cellar Door

Natalka's nest.

[mournfulroses]

Li Qingzhao, from a poem titled "Late Spring," featured in The Complete Poems of Li Qingzhao

[chillpotato]

- Lelia Chatti, from "Tea"

[prophetic-memory]

Mary Oliver, "Flare"

[mournfulroses]

Margaret Atwood, from an essay featured in "In Other Worlds," originally published in 2011

[bobbole]

Tuesday Riddell

[enchantedbook]

‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Svetlin Vassilev

[peaceinthestorm]

Koichi Nabatame (b. 1933, Japanese) ~ Blooming in the Evening, n/d, ink and color on paper.

[Source: nihonbijutsuin.or.jp]

[soracities]

Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch (trans. Gregory Rabassa)

[Text ID: “As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.”]

[insacredlight]

[enchantedbook]

"Offering" by Ulla Thynell

[abystle]

アトルガンの秘宝 (HidenTreasures of Aht Urhgan) Cover art, Yoshitaka Amano, 2006

[hideous-armor]

[theivorypiano]

𝔄𝔩𝔩 𝔡𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔪𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔶𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔡𝔞𝔶

gouache on canvas, 20x20cm

[lunamonchtuna]

— Marina Tsvetaeva, in a letter to Boris Pasternak, from A Russian Psyche: The Poetic Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva (via lunamonchtuna)

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[petaltexturedskies]

Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to J.M. Murry, written c. May 1921, from The Collected Letters

[lonequixote]

The arts … are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow … Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

— Kurt Vonnegut