#aliteratepassion

[fawnintheorchard]

[fawnintheorchard]

I love love love

[thewriterscaravan]

August 30, 1932 You are testing my courage to the full, like a torturer. How to extricate myself from this nightmare? I have only one source of strength (humanly, I have no strength), I have only writing, and it is this which I am doing now with a desperation you can never conceive of— I am writing against myself, against what you call my imperfections, against the woman, against my humaneness, against the continents which are giving way. — Anaïs Nin to Henry Miller

[yourdisappointedarms]

“And suppose the ‘getting somewhere feeling’ meant simply reaching a clarity, a knowledge, the very opposite of Dostoevsky—and that the clarity I have I may throw away, discard, repudiate entirely...You see, I often return to this conflict—the passion for truth and also the passion for darkness.” #anaisnin #letters #henrymiller #aliteratepassion #lettersofanaisninandhenrymiller #1932-1953 (at Olmsted Falls, Ohio)

[poetsanddreamers]

milkweed honey, newly ripened figs – pure saffron desire…                          (‘Moon an Open Book’).

Anne Tammel

[poetsanddreamers]

a crisp pear, fleur de sel beurre, truffle, pate, indigo herbs –                                    (‘Moon an Open Book’)

Anne Tammel

[arrowsandartemis-blog]