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It’s so rare seeing memes that praise men and boys so here are two nice ones.

October is my empire. Terror is part of me. 一 Tamura Ryūichi

1. Alfonsina Storni, 2. Cy Twombly, 3. William Stanley Merwin, 4. Cy Twombly, 5. Virginia Woolf, 6. Jorge Albericio, 7. Gala Mukomolova, 8. Andrei Tarkovsky, 9. Czesław Miłosz, 10. Andrei Tarkovsky, 11. Thomas Wolfe, 12. Andrei Tarkovsky, 13. Louise Glück

Clarice Lispector on the unknowable heaviness of existing 

Quotes: Clarice Lispector

Art: Xi Huang, Su Xinyu, Clarice Lispector 

Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky by Garth Greenwell

S2 E1 | S3 E8 | S3 E9 | S5 E1

„You were brave, Mr. Barrow… Very Brave.“

“All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.”    ―Charlotte Eriksson,Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps    

I’ve been interested in the costumes from Crimson Peak for a while, so I made a video! Check it out if you’re interested! :)

“To put it plainly, we just couldn’t stop writing songs. To try and put it more poetically, it feels like we were standing on the edge of the folklorian woods and had a choice: to turn and go back or to travel further into the forest of this music. We chose to wander deeper in … I’ve never done this before.”

— Happy anniversary to evermore

The world of period dramas.

Kaynak:twitter.com/loveforcaptnswn

Detail: Mars & Venus, Allegory of Peace, 1770, by Louis Jean François Lagrenée.

“There are days that I cannot find the sun even though its right outside my goddamn window.”

— Neil Hilborn, “This is Not the End of the World” (via jewist)

"Honey, when you kill the lights and kiss my eyes. I feel like a person for a moment of my life."

- Hozier (To Be Alone)

Jerry Downs -  Several years ago, on the hottest of Summer days, on my way home from a book signing in Southern California, I saw these blackbirds in the coolest spot. Stay cool, my fellow birds of a feather.

LOVE, DESIRE, HURT, KNIVES, BLOOD.

Richard Siken / 红月 Red Moon (Detail) - Huang Guangjian / x / can’t we just leave the monster alive - TXT / ’Ariel’ by Aneleh, published in the tide rises, the tide falls journal / Yves Olade, from When Rome Falls; Bloodsport, 2017 / Jane Hirshfield, Assay Only Glimpsable for an Instant

“Please — consider me a dream.”

— Franz Kafka; ‘Once while visiting his friend Max Brod, young Kafka awakened Brod’s father, who was asleep on a couch. Instead of apologizing, Kafka gently montioned him to relax, advanced through the room on tiptoe, and said softly: “Please – consider me a dream.”’ from Franz Kafka (Franz Baumer)

arabic poetry is so beautifully yet painfully romantic, i mean “they asked “do you love her to death?” i said “speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life" and “because my love for you is higher than words, i've decided to fall silent" could have got jane austen crying and shaking

what if we fucked around and renormalized sending handwritten letters to our lovers? 💌

Girls will lay in bed and wiggle their legs and squirm under the comforter and be like “mmmmmmm I’m so comfy!!!!” I’m girls

Hey, do you know that feeling of hitching up a long skirt so you don’t fall on your face when walking upstairs, and then you immediately become a wretched yet resolute Jane Austen character? It’s a universal thing, right?

Safia Elhillo, from Home Is Not a Country; “Boys”

“Politeness has become so rare that people mistake it for flirtation.”

— (via psych-facts)

From The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606).

“She is written in a foreign tongue.”

- Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

(via)

“[A]nd I think of what Hobie said: beauty alters the grain of reality. And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.”

— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

home is the first grave

unknown // catherine lacey // chen chen // silas denver melvin // aloha from hell, richard kadrey // courtney love prays to oregon // unknown // st. lucy’s home for girl’s raised by wolves // x // taylor swift’s “my tears ricochet” // this post @ceemetery

my kofi

by touch, by smell.

i would know him blind—

i would know him in death.

wish my life was like a 90's movie where all my friends work in record stores and bookshops and coffee shops and we see really cool bands in small little clubs and get breakfast together and like hang out on roofs and shit