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Venus Transit - Wolfgang Tillmans (2004)

i dream of a softer world

If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression of something beautiful, but annihilating.

Sylvia Plath, Ariel

art aesthetics: coquette

I love the rosy spring air. It’s seductive incense. It’s intermittent futility.

Paul Valéry, from "The Spinner" in The Collected Works

Virginia Woolf from a diary entry wr. c. February 1920 in The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf

Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"

If I fall on my knees, if I go through the ritual, the ancient antics, it’s you I adore; if I open my arms, it’s you I embrace, you I draw to me—

Virginia Woolf, from “An Unwritten Novel," Complete Works

“I collect memories like I do flower petals. Pressed firmly between the pages of books, tucked away for when I wish to descend back into that warm world that was at one time the present - A world which is coated with the sweet scent of old roses, faded ink, and the sweetest nostalgia.”

- It all still exists through memory.

I romanticise everything because I am made of love and starlight

[She] looked as if she had been carved out of a single pearl.

Angela Carter, "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.

an aura of love surrounds me

“She’s a star-gazer, a dreamy, sensitive soul. She’s a nymph taking refuge in her illusions. She wanders about in a garden, this sweet fanciful girl.”

— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)

Heart-shaped pendants grew in popularity during the sixteenth century, and Anne Boleyn was given various pieces shaped like hearts, including 'two diamonds on two hearts, for her head’, in February 1531. That same year, she also received twenty-one diamonds 'set upon rose hearts' to wear in her hair. Several of her jewels have a romantic theme to them, and they were varied and highly ornamented. If these jewels took her personal preferences into account, then she seems to have been particularly fond of diamonds, which appear frequently.

Nicola Tallis, All the Queen’s Jewels, 1445–1548: Power, Majesty and Display

“Her beauty drowned me. As I sat in front of her I felt that I would do anything mad for her, anything she asked of me. She was color, brilliance, strangeness.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love” -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)

“I am the daughter of myself. I am born of my own dream. My dream sustains me.”

— Rosario Castellanos (trans. Magda Bogin), excerpt from “Wailing Wall” from The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos

l.m. montgomery, anne of windy poplars

living from love poem to love poem

The only thing I want to do right now is to pick flowers in an enchanted forest and then dance with the fauns and woodland nymphs

i’ve fallen in love with every rose i’ve ever seen

“A lily-girl, not made for this world’s pain.”

— Oscar Wilde

She contains you like eternity.

— May Sayegh, The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, transl by Lena Jayyusi & Naomi Shihab Nye, (2001)