"Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
-John Keating; Dead Poets Society
Adonis, tr. by Samuel Hazo, from “The Crow’s Feather”, The Pages of Day and Night
House carved into a stone by a 15th century Romanian monk
“She is written in a foreign tongue.”
- Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
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my favorite relationship is the one between humans and dandelions. in childhood we instinctively blow on its little fuzzy seed carriers. we take the role of the wind, we help the dandelions in a crucial part of their lives, and in return we get a wish and a moment of happiness. this is how nature is meant to work. we are just as unaware of our goodness as the honey bees are, pollinating the flowers
Jovana Rikalo on Instagram
“Maybe we’ll meet again, when we are slightly older and our minds less hectic, and I’ll be right for you and you’ll be right for me. But right now, I am chaos to your thoughts and you are poison to my heart.”
— (via madsss5572)
I think I was just born with something dark and ugly inside of me.
Always waiting to be found out.
Will I ever forgive myself for being pathetic in love? For being sick and sad all the time.
- hopeless romanticism ( 100 quotes from the breakup)
How hollow is your heart? Without your anguish, anger and melancholy.
“and kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea i shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud.”
“i have only one thing to do and that’s be the wave that i am and then sink back into the ocean.”
THE SEA AS A PLACE OF BEGINNING AND ENDING
anne carson | geyser, mitski | rafael campo | ilya glazunov | slothrust | @ mild.moon on instagram | fernand braudel | bertil nilsson | a metamorfose dos pássaros (catarina vasconcelos, 2020) | fiona apple