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Celestial body. Self portrait, 2020

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kim petras lucas david icons please like or reblog if you save :)

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“All I ever wanted was to know what to do.”

— Dave Eggers

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Sasha Chorny, tr. by Bernard Meares, from “A Drunkard’s Nocturnes,” c. 1910

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The Tunnel of Love - Klevan, Ukraine

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“The woods which give me their silence,”

— Denise Levertov, from The Complete Poems of Denise Levertov; “The Almost-Island,”

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Osip Mandelstam, tr. by Bernard Meares, from “The Finder of a Horseshoe,”

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“What am I doing? I’m still wandering through the streets, looking, sitting by the sea, enjoying the sunshine. I am entirely alone. I don’t know anyone, no one knows me, and for me that is a great pleasure.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki wr. c. January 1924

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“I don’t want to run away from what I feel in my heart I ought to undergo. In the past I never knew, as I know now, how strong I am, and knowing this makes me very happy.”

— Gertrud Kolmar, from a letter written c. October 1941 featured in “My Gaze Turned Inward,”

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Nikita Gill, from “Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths & Monsters,”

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Alexander Blok, from “The Stranger,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”

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C. S. Lewis, from “A Grief Observed,” originally published c. 1961

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Jules Laforgue, tr. by William Jay Smith, from “Complaint on Oblivion of the Dead,”

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C. S. Lewis, from “A Grief Observed,” originally published c. 1961

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Boris Slutsky, tr. by G. S. Smith, from “With that Old Woman I was Cold-Polite,”

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Lev Adolfovich Goldberg, tr. by Robert Chandler, from “The World’s Too Big,”

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“I don’t even want to be less sad. I should be ashamed of myself if I found consolation after loving the way I did.”

— Colette, tr. by Matthew Ward, from The Collected Stories; “Gitanette,”