The greatest pleasure of life is sensation,
To feel that we exist,
Even in pain.
-Lord Byron
I will tell it to you one day and you'll see everything make sense. And please embrace me and whisper sweet things to me.
It is so cruel that we think we’re wasting time when we’re doing something that we love and that does not have any materialistic returns
dead poets society (1989, written by tom schulman)
the poet and his muse.
dedicated to my lovely dorian.
I recognize no dichotomy between art and protest.
Ralph Ellison, interviewed in The Art of Fiction No. 8 (via theclassicsreader)
“Its a hard world to be different in.”
Credit: autumnslittlesister
“The same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.”
“Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.”
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Charles Macaulay
The secret history