most ardently

𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦

[macrolit]

“It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”

— The End of the Affair, Graham Greene (b. 2 October 1904)

[aridante]

“As with a wound on one’s own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

[nonempress]

[makkleyn]

[sugar-cafe]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEWUD11l9dO/

[rimbaux]

“We are not transparent to ourselves. We have intuitions, suspicions, hunches, vague musings, and strangely mixed emotions, all of which resist simple definition. We have moods, but we don’t really know them. Then, from time to time, we encounter works of art that seem to latch on to something we have felt but never recognized clearly before. Alexander Pope identified a central function of poetry as taking thoughts we experience half-formed and giving them clear expression: “what was often thought, but ne’er so well expressed.” In other words, a fugitive and elusive part of our own thinking, our own experience, is taken up, edited, and returned to us better than it was before, so that we feel, at last, that we know ourselves more clearly.”

— Alain de Botton, Art as Therapy (via exhaled-spirals)

[foxdearr-deactivated20210115]

when sappho said “in the crooks of your body i find my religion” and when hozier said “the only heaven i’ll be sent to is when i’m alone with you”

[falsedisciple]

missing Rome even more than usual today

[metvmorqhoses]

“The heart grows brutal from feeding on fantasies.”

— Robert Pinsky, “In Defense of Allusion” (via wordsnquotes)

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[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“The world’s full of lonely people afraid to make the first move.”

— Tony Vallelonga, from screenplay Green Book, by Nick Vallelonga (Universal Pictures, 2018)

[chandelyer-deactivated20241003]

Alberta Ferretti fall 2017 rtw

[luthienne]

Camille Rankine, “Emergency Management”

[weltenwellen]

Leah Umansky, from “Edge of the Wild”

[eastofthesunwestofthemoon]

“You are embarrassed about your blood, its redness, the way it is just coming out of you with no concern for anyone’s feelings. You are (…) embarrassed to be alive.”

— In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado (via salemwitchtrials)

[facinaoris]

La Dolce Verita Collection Details | Cucculelli Shaheen

[gunnr-lp]

The Lament for Icarus [c.1898]

Artist: Herbert Draper