the goldfinch, donna tartt / on earth we’re briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong

Kostas Karyotakis, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; “I Saw This Night,”
love unspoken, for @4400lux
Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse | In The Mood For Love (2000) dir. Wong Kar Wai
“What is a promise if not your hand in mine?”
— Alice Walker, from A Poem Traveled Down My Arm
1. Natalie Diaz, “Isn’t the Air Also a Body, Moving?”
2. Susan Sontag, “As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”
“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”
— Edgar Allan Poe (via fucktherulesofsociety)