Paul Verlaine

La Cholerine original watercolor attributed to Paul Verlaine. A pencil note claims it was “drawn by our friend Verlaine at the Café Procope, one evening when he was more drunk than usual.”

I have heard it said that one loses a woman by loving her too much, that an affectation of coldness, from time to time, brings better results. And so on. I shall play no such tricks with you … Let love be truly love—that is, let it be peace—or let it not exist at all. — Henry de Montherlant

1927 • Mikhail Bulgakov

Fernando Botero 1985 • Irving Penn

Patti Smith

Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston in The Addams Family (1991).

The Ramones by Paul Natkin 1983 🖤

Un vent mordant traverse cette nuit la maison — le nom des démons. — Tomas Tranströmer, La Grande Énigme

Peter Turnley

Paul Verlaine - BOTD

Turhan Bey in "The Mummy's Tomb" (with Lon Chaney Jr.) - BOTD

Lord Byron

Paris Blues (1961) directed by Martin Ritt starring Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Joanne Woodward and Diahann Carroll. Jazz, love and Paris in the fall.

Nazareno de S. Juan de la Palma 1910 • Tomás Sanz

Richard Mansfield as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1888 • Henry Frederick Van Der Weyde

Still Life 1943 • M.C. Escher

Headless Woman 1961 • Diane Arbus

robert frank

myaskofiev 2: Sergei Prokofiev to (music tutor) Reinhold Gliere:

Alejandra Pizarnik

Rino Gaetano

My ambition is to turn everything into poetry, to cultivate the art of unreason, and to break the barriers between the solitary soul and the world. — Alejandra Pizarnik 1967 • Daniela Hamani

The Dream of Venus New York World's Fair 1939 • Salvador Dali

Jacques Prévert and Alexander Calder 1966 • Claude Gaspari

Interior of the Egyptian Theatre as seen from the stage, Hollywood, 1924.

D.R. Fitzpatrick, "Harvest Moon" St. Louis Dispatch, Aug. 25, 1939

Looking for something to watch for Michael York's birthday? The movie's tagline was: "Compared to them, the Macbeths were just plain folks and the Borgias were a nice Italian family." Something For Everyone (1970) Angela Lansbury, Michael York www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8w8...

“Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.” —Grace Paley

Dorothy Parker

Ready? Weekend mood on!

“The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.” -- Joan Didion

I wish I could treat every day as Halloween, and get dressed up and go out into the world as some eccentric character. — Cindy Sherman 1980 • Untitled Film Still #56

Friday 1964 • Garry Winogrand

Zoe 1980 • Robert Frank

Ann Buchanan, Girl Who Cries a Tear, 1964. Andy Warhol, Ann Buchanan, Screen Test, 16mm film, blackandwhite, silent, 4.5 minutes at 16 frames per second.

Edgar Allan Poe

Gregory Corso, poet, juvenile delinquent, dandy, radio thief, sullen and broody scribbler in bars. The man Allen Ginsburg dubbed "A Beat Christ-boy". #GregoryCorso #BOTD "I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant"

Dutch documentary filmmaker, author, and photographer Johan van der Keuken. Mirror, 1960 #Photography

Rodchenko

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” -- Anne Herbert

The Raven and Other Poems 1845 • Edgar Allan Poe

Certain verses, fragments, from poems that stayed with me... A Celan, a Tsvetaeva, a Mandelstam, a Montale - I love you like poppies and memory - A kiss in the forehead erases memory, I give you a kiss - I am trained in the sciences of goodbyes - I am going to lose you again. And I can't

Singer at the Cafe Metropole, NYC 1946 • Lisette Model

Tennessee Williams 1965 • Orlando Fernandez

Louis Aragon