Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, from “Love Opened a Mortal Wound,” c. 1672 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Motorcycle patrol in Central Park New York City 1931

Navy pilots test their steadiness and muscular coordination in Corpus Christi, Texas. Photograph by the U.S. Navy

Bear, 25cm x 19cm, etching & aquatint, by Linda Piekäinen (link on her art page)

1974: Richard Nixon’s resignation speech, from Lafayette Park. The journalist in the center is surrounded by crowds who could see Nixon on the same TV set that he was using as a monitor.

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Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (via antigonick)

Deception (1946)

Colette, from a letter to Henry de Jouvenel written c. November 1912 (via violentwavesofemotion)

not to be dramatic but frank ocean deserves to be in an art museum

Weegee. New Years, Stuyvesant Casino. ca. 1945

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Clarice Lispector, from An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Delights (via histhory)

Odysseus Elytis, from The Collected Poems; “Three Times The Truth,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Alina Pleskova, “Re:Eros,” published in The American Poetry Review (via bostonpoetryslam)

— Federico García Lorca, “La Soleá,” Lorca: Selected Poems (via tristealven)