The Lonely Queen Of the Night

Like the fox I run with the hunted- C. Bukowski

[qvotable]

“Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”

— Max Ehrmann

[toiich]

Agnès Varda

[quotespile]

“He doesn’t blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting.”

— John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich

[shisasan]

6 June 1939 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[bonyuterus]

pulling up to the AA-meeting expecting to meet fellow autistic asexuals

[mournfulroses]

Ōtomo no Yakamochi, from a poem featured in From the country of Eight Islands; an anthology of Japanese Poetry

[swordofmoonl1ght]

THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957), DIR. INGMAR BERGMAN

[knight-qoheleth]

[shisasan]

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

[hereiswhatremains]

"I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult."

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966

[leopardluvrr]

[poetic-questions]

from "Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1939-1947)"

[namedvesta]

To Say Dark Things, by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated from the German by Rebekah Wilson.

[askyea-poesy]

I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.

Ingeborg Bachmann

[litteraeignotae]

[petaltexturedskies]

Ingeborg Bachmann, from "Eyes to Wonder" in Three Paths to the Lake

[derangedrhythms]

Ingeborg Bachmann, In the Storm of Roses: Mortgaged Time; from 'Dark Words', tr. Mark Anderson