artandchocolate

Perchè dolore è più dolor, se tace

[happyheidi]

｡ﾟﾟ･｡･ﾟﾟ｡ ﾟ. April will bring blessings.

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[flowerytale]

[enchanted-keys]

Anna Rose O'Sullivan and Marcelino Sambè in The Nutcracker (Royal Ballet 2023)

[metamorphesque]

Anne Sexton, The Fury of Flowers and Worms

[ducissatenebrarum]

A metal heart decorated with small springs that unfolds to reveal paper covered with hand-written prayers in Italian and a small image of the Virgin Mary.

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written in October 1920, featured in The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol.2, 1920-1924

[derinscamera]

Sylvia Plath | Lock of hair, at age 2 ½

[mournfulroses]

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

[vintagehomecollection]

Narcissi planted in baskets make unusual table centres; growing plants, rather than cut flowers, are much more in keeping with the farmhouse setting.

Traditional Country Style, 1991

[stuckinapril]

sometimes soft love is just listening to someone ramble for hours about their favorite book or show or song and never asking them to stop once

[derangedrhythms]

I search feverishly for traces of you.

Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Reed; from 'To the Artist', tr. Judith Hemschemeyer

[theluxuryny]

I love the idea of jewelry being passed down in a family. The stories that it tells, the bodies that have worn them. I find it so simple yet so pure.

[flowerytale]

Rum Row (1922), by Frederick Judd Waugh

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written in October 1920, featured in The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol.2, 1920-1924

[heavensghost]

August

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenská written c. August 1920, featured in "Letters to Milena,"

[axgape]