Velimir Khlebnikov, Collected Works, Vol. 3: Selected Poems, Tr. By Paul Schmidt

Cesare Saccaggi (detail)

i was re-watching ‘maya angelou: still i rise’ & lost my mind & heart during this reading of ‘the mask’ so i decided to record + upload for anyone who would also like to be brought to tears. 

Costume designed by Adrian for Marie Antoinette - 1938 (detail, my scan)

“Firesouled, vermilion-hearted,”

— Amy Lowell, from A Dome of Many-coloured Glass; Before the Altar.

John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1 [originally published 1667]

‘three fair-cheeked Kharites…from whose eyes as they glanced flowed love that unnerves the limbs’

- hesiod, theogony

The Three Graces - detail from La Primavera, Sandro Botticelli (Uffizi Gallery, Firenze)

"Suffering feels religious if you do it right"

Chelsea Hodson; Tonight I'm Someone Else

Caroline M. Mar, from "Intelligible"