[mrsclarkkent]

“Calm and queenly, comes the summer nymph, July—crowned with azure, clothed with splendour,”

— John Critchley Prince, from Dreams & Realities In Verse and Prose; “July,”

[seaymph]

“the place / screams ritual. there is naught / but ecstasy here and I drown & / drown & drown.”

— Venetta Octavia, Fox & Mama (via persephomia)

[lamignonette]

[aaaangel444]

[perriaeyjeve]

[lamignonette]

[detailedart]

Moon | 1903 | David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Pickering, William Henry, 1858-1938.

[rilk]

Clarice Lispector’s law school graduation by the University of Rio de Janeiro, 1943.

[messiers]

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[rentedstarship]

Xingzi Gu, Untitled (moon and cherry)

[crucifiedlovers]

My blood is on fire: stay, I will be your shelter for a night of dreams.

Yosano Akiko, Tangled Hair (trans. Dennis Maloney and Hide Oshiro)

[crucifiedlovers]

Yosano Akiko, Tangled Hair (trans. Dennis Maloney and Hide Oshiro)

[crucifiedlovers]

Yosano Akiko, Tangled Hair (trans. Dennis Maloney and Hide Oshiro)

[crucifiedlovers]

Love is the voice of admiration for violets in the purple evening.

Yosano Akiko, Tangled Hair (trans. Dennis Maloney and Hide Oshiro)

[crucifiedlovers]

Where she came from only jewels were placed in satin-lined, cushioned boxes, but here it was thoughts and memories which the air, the scents, and the music conspired to hypnotize by softness.

Anaïs Nin, Seduction of the Minotaur

[crucifiedlovers]

the sea inside my heart unknown even to myself

Yosano Akiko, Modern Japanese Tanka (trans. Makoto Ueda)

[crucifiedlovers]

tell them she is enjoying the view of the moon a pink gossamer robe barely covering her body

Yosano Akiko, Modern Japanese Tanka (trans. Makoto Ueda)

[bebemoon]

“I was so much overcome by her beauty that I really felt as if I’d suddenly got into the sea, and heard the mermaids fluting on their rocks.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell dated 22 May 1917.