Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
[image ID: “My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. “Listen,” he said, “life and no escape.” end ID]
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1914 "Violet" by Heinrich Lefler from Art Deco, Art Nouveau and 20th Century Decoratif Arts Group, FB.
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Stained Glass Window 36 x 28 ebay Horseman Antiques
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characters whose philosophy is “if i cannot be wanted, i will be needed and if i cannot be needed, let me be used until there’s nothing left of me.” thank you for everyone’s attention. falls off stage and dies
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Frida Kahlo, from a letter written in 1934, featured in "The Letters of Frida Kahlo,"
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Bangs
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from two questions by silas denver melvin, published in bleating thing magazine
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you can learn. you can familiarize yourself with challenging concepts. names and dates may come to you with time and repetition. you provide valuable commentary, thoughts, and emotions to the study of a subject.
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— Fiona Apple
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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to C.H. Clark, dated May 1 1883
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“I watch him in the kitchen, and I think of how much it hurts to love somebody. How deep the hurt is, how almost unbearable. It’s not the love that hurts; it’s the possibility of anything happening to the object of your love.”
— Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
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