[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak featured in Letters, Summer 1926

[freshpickle]

please be nice to me, i'm in my twenties. do you know what that does to a person

[dollehouse]

Grace Kelly, 1956.

[allaloneatsunset]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— emily brontë; wuthering heights

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

[ahotknife]

izabella miko in the music video for mr. brightside

[malojasnake]

— To Raja Rao, by Czeslaw Milosz

[louisegluck]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals [ID in alt text]

[theoptia]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

Text ID: Are you fond of roses? It feels to me: as if all the roses in the world bloom for you and by means of you,

[princessofwallachia]

[iamfawnish]

best form of antisocial media

[mournfulroses]

Oscar Wilde, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde

[petaltexturedskies]

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from "Memoirs of Martynov" in Selected Works

[seaymph]

“I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly, / Like midsummer moths, and honied words like bees, / Gilded and sticky, with a little sting.”

— Elinor Wylie, from Nets to Catch the Wind; “Pretty Words,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[loveletters2myself]

i simply do not have 1 nonchalant bone in my body. i am emotional, passionate and dramatic. and it’s quite beautiful.

[weltenwellen]

Clarice Lispector, tr. by Ronald W. Sousa, The Passion According to G.H.

[petaltexturedskies]

Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo, dated 23 December 1881