“Time Was Passing Like A Hand Waving From A Train I Wanted To Be On. I Hope You Never Have To Think

A Moment of Romance (1990) directed by Benny Chan

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West (c. October 1928)

Phoebe Bridgers, Moon Song

Franz Kafka (misattributed)

Leo Brynielsson, The Moon Has Fallen

Mitski, Happy

Richard Siken, Anyway

Richard Monckton Milnes, Lady Moon

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hymn to the Moon

It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) dir. Frank Capra

Rumi, Some Kiss We Want

George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Margaret Atwood, Owl and Pussycat, Some Years Later

“A nymph came pirouetting, under white Rotating petals, in a vernal rite To kneel before an altar in a wood Where various articles of toilette stood.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (via starpleiades)

“Hair all tangled this morning - Shall I smooth it With spring rain Dripping form the jet-black Wings of swallows?”

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Yosano Akiko, “Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami”

Salman Toor, Three Friends in a Cab, 16 x 20 inches, 2021

girl what's wrong? are you experiencing the sylvia plath fig tree in your head again?

Two Figures on a Bed, Pepijn Simon, 2020

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

what is love if not a repetition of history.

Painting by Sasha Hartslief (b. 1974 Gauteng, South Africa)

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