15 October 1923, 9 Clarence Gate Gdns

Dear Bertie,

I was delighted to get your letter. It gives me very great pleasure to know that you like the Waste Land, and especially Part V which in my opinion is not only the best part, but the only part that justifies the whole, at all. It means a great deal to me that you like it.

T. S. Eliot

to Bertrand Russell

Rupert Brooke by Sherril Schell, 1913

Flora Poetica

Just as leaning from my taxicab my breath reaches for the back of your neck

Travel, Frank O'Hara

Violent proclivities

you are smiling, you are emptying the world so we can be alone

Now that I am in Madrid and can think, Frank O'Hara, 1960

To love her was to be soothed.

Atonement, Ian McEwan

Rainy Day Women

My daddy is a handsome devil

Sousa Lopes, A Blusa Azul (detail)

Tudo será vaidade, debaixo do Sol

Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão

Nina Leen for Life Magazine

Gosto da gota d'água que se equilibra
na folha rasa, tremendo ao vento.

Todo o universo, no oceano do ar, secreto vibra:
e ela resiste, no isolamento.

Epigrama N.º 5, Cecília Meireles

George Romney, Lady Hamilton as Circe, c. 1782

George Romney, Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton, 1785

The weight of the world is love.

Remember the Day

The Trembling of the Veil, Allen Ginsberg

Tudo era assim, quando vivi.

Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão

Pretty as can be

The sheltering sky