"My darling, there are no walls or secret gardens in me for you. You have the keys to all the doors."

– Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, August 12, 1948

Lince in the House of Sirico, Pompeii, Dec. 2023 📸 Silvia Vacca

Lince posing on a Pompeian marble table, Feb. 2024.

Photo by Silvia Vacca, Pompeii Archaeological Park.

natasha

I cannot do anything with a dancer--and I include myself--if the mind is not as conditioned, as limber, as obedient as the body. The body reveals what the mind is doing, where it is going, what it loves. The world reveals to you what you most want, and the conditioned mind heads toward what it most needs. Think and respond intelligently. If you entertain the notion of limitation or failure, it will rest comfortably in your company, and it will become a familiar location. I am not talking about the failure of risk: I am talking about the failure of imagination; the failure of faith. No one is looking at you; no one cares what you are doing. Get over this vain sense of observation and devote yourself to life and to others and to your work. You have no audience yet, but you have your soul and your fate, hovering overhead to see how you're going to husband both." ~ Martha Graham/Interview with James Grissom/1990

(with thanks to aliveonallchannels)

every time i write i think about that maya angelou quote where she talks about her editor asking her why she uses semicolons instead of colons and says she has often responded by threatening to never speak to him again

i cant believe people just talk about sports and theyre being serious

(by 西蒙娜的猫咪物语)

Excerpt from "Short Talks" by Anne Carson

[text ID: Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels.]

emily battaglini

I may look fine but deep down I wanna discover a hidden staircase in a library.

Ballet costume worn by Anna Pavola for “The Swan”, silk and sequined cotton

believed to be worn c. 1910s-1920s

credit: Museum of London

“this lost nymph of thine, free as the air, invisibly, she strays about these thornless wilds; her pleasant days she tastes unseen;”

— John Keats, from Lamia.

Pride and Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

Mike Arnold - Australia

http://www.tumblr.com/blog/mikearnoldphotography

nia gould

Franz Kafka, from a letter featured in "Kafka: The Tremendous World I Have Inside my Head,"

 Millie Clinton