December 2011
We are involved with flower, leaf, and fruit.
They speak not just the language...
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, from “XIV,” trans. Stephen Mitchell (via proustitute)
Waiting for the Barbarians
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?...
– Constantine P. Cavafy (1904) (via loverofbeauty)