But You're So Earthly, Yet So HEAVENLY!

Lucero | 21 | ♈| California

[athousandvixens]

lucero Platosmusee.tumblr.com #lucero

[athousandvixens]

I need you more than you’ll ever know. platosmusee.tumblr.com

[nitrogen]

By Anne Vetter

[modedamour]

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“This girl here has your eyes, but not your soul. She comforts and torments me with your smile.”

— Robyn Bolam, from “Her Husband Speaks to her of Dragons,” wr. c. 1981

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“Girl woman with a war in her.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch, from “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir,” wr. c. 2011

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“Whatever may come, you are forever in all my life,”

— María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus written c. January 1959

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“These hands hold nothing. They love most what is wild. They invite no pity.”

— Paula Meehan, from Painting Rain; “You Open Your Hands to Me,” (edited)

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Elma Mitchell, from People Etcetera: Selected Poems; “Thoughts After Ruskin,”

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“Everything is vulnerable at sunrise.”

— Elma Mitchell, from People Etcetera: Selected Poems; “Vulnerable,”

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“To become a kind of collapse, a remnant, something remembered,”

— Elma Mitchell, from People Etcetera: Selected Poems; “Death of Adam,”

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Denise Levertov, from The Life Around Us: Poems; “A Snake in my Heart,”

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“My first impression was of astonishment at her beauty; I was not prepared for such actual beauty as I now found in her face.”

— Vita Sackville-West, from The Selected Writings of V. S. W.; “Heritage,”

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[preciousnugget]

Classical Pieces You've Probably Heard but Might Not Remember the Name

William Tell Overture- Rossini (Most famous part at 8:45, but why not listen to the whole thing?)

Also Sprach Zarathustra- Strauss

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik- Mozart

Symphony 94, Mvt. 2 “Surprise Symphony”- Haydn 

Toccata and Fugue in d Minor-Bach

Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2- Chopin

Rondo alla Turca- Mozart

Sinfonie de Fanfares: Rondeau- Jean-Joseph Mouret

The Four Seasons: Spring- Vivaldi (I just linked to the whole thing because it’s great)

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring- Bach

O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana)- Carl Orff

Funeral March- Chopin

Orpheus in the Underworld: Infernal Galop (A.K.A. Can Can)- Offenbach

Pomp and Circumstance (You probably graduated to this)- Elgar

Gayane: Sabre Dance- Aram Khachaturian

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Wedding March- Mendelssohn

Carmen: Les Toreadors- Bizet

The Ride of the Valkyries- Wagner

Für Elise- Beethoven

Dance of the Hours- Ponchielli

Rigotello: La Donna e Mobile- Verdi

Night on Bald Mountain- Mussorgsky

Romeo and Juliet: Love Theme- Tchaikovsky

Entry of the Gladiators- Julius Fucik

Lakmé: Flower Duet- Delibes

Peer Gynt: In the Hall of the Mountain King- Greig

Rodeo: Hoedown- Copland

Peer Gynt: Morning Mood- Greig

New World Symphony Mov. [2][4]- Dvorak

Ave Maria (You knew this, but did you know that it was by Schubert?)

Canon in D- Pachelbel

Add others if you want! Have fun!

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Dies Irae (from Requiem) - Verdi

Flight of the Bumblebee - Rimsky-Korsakov

Finale to the 1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky

Der Holle Rache kocht in meiner herzen (aka the Queen of the Night aria) - Mozart

Libiamo ne’ lieti calici - Verdi

Largo al factotum - Rossini

Overture to The Barber of Seville - Rossini

The Blue Danube Waltz - Strauss

Moonlight Sonata (mvmt. 1) - Beethoven

Symphony No. 5 - Beethoven

I’m sure there are more but these were some of the first that came to mind as missing!

[teunvolkarin]

I think this one’s missing, one of my favourites:

Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns

[maythecorpsbewithyou]

This is one of the best classical music master-posts I’ve ever seen. I’m so proud of yall

[moonandwomb]

“gjensynsglede”

— (noun) An untranslatable Norwegian word, gjensynsglede is described as the feeling of joy, anticipation, love you experience when you are about to meet someone you haven’t seen in a long time. (via wordsnquotes)

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