What Did You Do As A Child That Made The Hours Pass Like Minutes? Herein Lies The Key To Your Earthly

Martin Podt (@martinpodt)

Samuel Beckett, letter to Morris Sinclair (March 4th, 1934), The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Vol. I: 1929-1940 [ID'd]

She wanted to scream, but a person who is alone—alone in the absolute sense of the word—does not scream out her despair; it is useless. Deserts do not hear. But she can do things with her hands which even a desert must notice. She can tear at the sand until the desert bleeds.

– Stig Dagerman, from “Men of Character,” The Games of Night (Quartet, 1986)

This work, not widely known, is called “Sfumato,” painted in 1972. Dali developed a new technique here, where he embellished the image after first taking paper and scorching and smoking it with a candle

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

musings on april

Sylvia Plath (Leon Dabo), Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Naguib Mahfouz (Edgar Degas), E. E. Cummings (Édouard Manet), Rabindranath Tagore, T. S. Eliot (Edgar Degas), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Alphonse Osbert)

Eclipse of the Sun in Venice in July 8, 1842 by Ippolito Caffi.

“LAPIN – UNE OREILLE LEVÉE” ÉDOUARD-MARCEL SANDOZ // circa 1919 [patinated bronze | 6 x 7 x 4.4 cm.]