You were burned, you were about to burn, you’re still on fire.
Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuinston | Alegoría de la Caridad, Francisco de Zurbarán | Portrait of Saint Augustine, Philippe de Champaigne | Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov tr. Hugh Aplin | Portrait of a Lady on Fire dir. Céline Sciamma | If Not, Winter, Sappho tr. Anne Carson | War of the Foxes, Richard Siken | Figura alegórica de la Caridad, Simon Vouet | Mercy, Andrea Dworkin
when mary oliver said “so this is the world. i’m not in it. it is beautiful” and “i wanted to know, whoever i was, i was alive for a little while” and “mostly, i want to be kind” and “i want to say all my life i was a bride married to amazement” and “you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves” and “someday we’ll live in the sky” and “i want to love this world as thought it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get to be alive” and “have you too finally figured out what beauty is for? and have you changed your life?”
