une adolescente

[gypsyastronaut]

Charles Bukowski having a moment with his cat Minksy (1985)

[fuckyeahmrleonardcohen]

 Leonard Cohen, Hydra, Greece, 1983 by Dominique Issermann

[literarymood]

Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 27 February 1929, featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. IV, 1927-1931

[per-asperaa-ad-astra]

When a physicist falls in love :)

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.

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Mahmoud Darwish

[uneadolescente]

Nizar Qabbani, Arabian Love Poems

[uneadolescente]

"in front of my mother and my sisters, i pretend love is cheap and vulgar. i act like it's a sin- i pretend that love is for women on a dark path. but at night i dream of a love so heavy it makes my spine throb-i dream up a lover who makes love like he is separating salt from water."

Salma Deera, salt

[davidhudson]

Yukio Mishima, January 14, 1925 – November 25, 1970.

[flowerytale]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, 21 February 1941)

[uneadolescente]

Anna Pavlova and her Pet Swan Jack (1927)

[uneadolescente]

“Death is Nothing at All” by Henry Scott Holland

First delivered as part of a sermon in 1910. Henry Scott-Holland (1847-1918) was a Professor of Religious Divinity at Oxford.

[riverwindphotography]

Window into another world

© gif by riverwindphotography, December 2022

[derangedrhythms]

Anna Akhmatova,  20th Century Russian Poetry: Silver and Steel, from ‘The Sentence’, tr. Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward

[uneadolescente]

Charles Bukowski, Women

[uneadolescente]

‎أن تقتليني .. وأن توقفيني عن الموت .. هذا هو الحب

You are killing me, and you are keeping me from dying. That is love.

Mahmoud Darwish

[xshayarsha]

“Lying alone, my black hair tangled, uncombed, I long for the one who touched it first.”

— Izumi Shikibu, from The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan.