C R E T E
“This is the light of autumn; it has turned on us. Surely it is a privilege to approach the end still believing in something.”—
Louise Gluck, from October
— Ocean Vuong, Because It’s Summer
Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)
I remember life.
There was so much. I held it
all. I held it all.Michelle Hulan, “The Universe, as in One Last Song for the Lonely Hearts”, Chestnut Review
“You never named me. Victor, you never gave me what little humanity every person is owed. I understand there are abominations and monstrosities that should be forgotten and erased from history but even hurricanes have names.”— excerpt from “Open Letter From Frankenstein’s Monster To Victor Frankenstein” by Alex Dang! (via wordsoftakumi)
— Sappho: a New Translation of the Complete Works (by Diane Rayor)
[text ID: Sweet mother, I cannot weave – / slender Aphrodite has overcome me / with longing for a girl.]





