Rainer Maria Rilke
September 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Rainer Maria Rilke
Artists in Exile
New York, 1942
photography by Hermann Landshoff
New York, 1942
photography by Hermann Landshoff
August 25, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Artists in Exile
New York, 1942
photography by Hermann Landshoff
New York, 1942
photography by Hermann Landshoff
C. P. Cavafy
tr. by Stratis Haviaras
tr. by Stratis Haviaras
August 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
C. P. Cavafy
tr. by Stratis Haviaras
tr. by Stratis Haviaras
Ady Fidelin, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, Man Ray (1939)
photo by Lee Miller
photo by Lee Miller
August 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Ady Fidelin, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, Man Ray (1939)
photo by Lee Miller
photo by Lee Miller
“A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.”
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
April 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.”
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
“...On that best portion of a good man's life;
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.”
William Wordsworth
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.”
William Wordsworth
April 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“...On that best portion of a good man's life;
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.”
William Wordsworth
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.”
William Wordsworth
Hervé Guibert
Chambre de Mathieu
c.1989
© Christine Guibert
Courtesy Les Douches la Galerie, Paris
Chambre de Mathieu
c.1989
© Christine Guibert
Courtesy Les Douches la Galerie, Paris
February 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Hervé Guibert
Chambre de Mathieu
c.1989
© Christine Guibert
Courtesy Les Douches la Galerie, Paris
Chambre de Mathieu
c.1989
© Christine Guibert
Courtesy Les Douches la Galerie, Paris
Sappho
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
transl. by Aaron Poochigian
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
transl. by Aaron Poochigian
February 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Sappho
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
transl. by Aaron Poochigian
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
transl. by Aaron Poochigian
Santa Claus feeding pigeons on Boston Common, 1928
Photo by Leslie Ronald Jones (1886-1967)
Photo by Leslie Ronald Jones (1886-1967)
December 23, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Santa Claus feeding pigeons on Boston Common, 1928
Photo by Leslie Ronald Jones (1886-1967)
Photo by Leslie Ronald Jones (1886-1967)
Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936)
Gathering Water Lilies, 1886
Gathering Water Lilies, 1886
December 23, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936)
Gathering Water Lilies, 1886
Gathering Water Lilies, 1886
“Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me.”
Samuel Beckett,
From an Abandoned Work
Died on this day in 1989.
Samuel Beckett,
From an Abandoned Work
Died on this day in 1989.
![“...dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”
Samuel Beckett,
From an Abandoned Work
Cover design by Peter Snow
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December 22, 2024 at 8:37 PM
“Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me.”
Samuel Beckett,
From an Abandoned Work
Died on this day in 1989.
Samuel Beckett,
From an Abandoned Work
Died on this day in 1989.
“The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then...”
Jack Kerouac,
On the Road
© Alain Willaume
(Tendance Floue)
Jack Kerouac,
On the Road
© Alain Willaume
(Tendance Floue)
December 12, 2024 at 12:58 AM
“The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then...”
Jack Kerouac,
On the Road
© Alain Willaume
(Tendance Floue)
Jack Kerouac,
On the Road
© Alain Willaume
(Tendance Floue)
"...the blue seems eternal"
Virginia Woolf
{ Diaries }
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928)
- Interior with a Big Blue Pot
- Under the Big Ash Tree
- Grey Weather
Virginia Woolf
{ Diaries }
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928)
- Interior with a Big Blue Pot
- Under the Big Ash Tree
- Grey Weather
December 11, 2024 at 2:01 PM
"...the blue seems eternal"
Virginia Woolf
{ Diaries }
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928)
- Interior with a Big Blue Pot
- Under the Big Ash Tree
- Grey Weather
Virginia Woolf
{ Diaries }
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928)
- Interior with a Big Blue Pot
- Under the Big Ash Tree
- Grey Weather
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922)
Silhouetted Trees c.1910
Cyanotype print on paper
Silhouetted Trees c.1910
Cyanotype print on paper
December 4, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922)
Silhouetted Trees c.1910
Cyanotype print on paper
Silhouetted Trees c.1910
Cyanotype print on paper
Oscar Wilde,
The Disciple
The Disciple
November 30, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Oscar Wilde,
The Disciple
The Disciple
“It was in Trouville that I stared at the sea until nothing was left. Trouville was the solitude of my entire life.”
Marguerite Duras
photography via: PORT Magazine
Marguerite Duras
photography via: PORT Magazine
November 21, 2024 at 10:38 AM
“It was in Trouville that I stared at the sea until nothing was left. Trouville was the solitude of my entire life.”
Marguerite Duras
photography via: PORT Magazine
Marguerite Duras
photography via: PORT Magazine
Arthur Rimbaud
“Sensitivity
Was my fall.”
“Sensitivity
Was my fall.”
November 19, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Arthur Rimbaud
“Sensitivity
Was my fall.”
“Sensitivity
Was my fall.”
〜 Jorge Luis Borges
November 16, 2024 at 3:16 PM
〜 Jorge Luis Borges
“In the sky, through the window, white clouds were coming undone, running loose from the calm blue.”
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector
November 16, 2024 at 1:48 AM
“In the sky, through the window, white clouds were coming undone, running loose from the calm blue.”
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector
photography © Jon Nicholson
November 16, 2024 at 1:27 AM
photography © Jon Nicholson