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Ted Hughes, describing his wife Sylvia Plath in Birthday Letters

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Anton Chekhov, Verochka

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L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

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sandy liang locket mirror ring

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audrey hepburn test shots for war and peace (1956) ♡

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Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems

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“My lovely one, my dream…”

— Anton Chekhov, from The Plays of Anton Chekhov

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“We have dreamed a lovely dream—that is all!”

— Marie Antoinette, 1793

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“How your heart opened like silk.”

— Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman; “Jumping Off Roofs” (via luthienne)

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You intrude on my sleep. I believe you are an enchantress.

Alexander Hamilton in a letter to Elizabeth Schuyler, October 1780

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Bram Stoker, Dracula

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Diana Adams of the New York City Ballet in a photo by George Platt Lynes, 1951

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Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

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“She’s an enchanted princess, like Sleeping Beauty or one of Marie Antoinette’s ladies in a history book.”

— Edith Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle (1907)

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“By heaven, she is a dainty one.”

— Anne Boleyn makes her entrance in Henry VIII (Act I, Scene IV)

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“I die of reverie;”

— Delmira Agustini, from The White Book (1907); “Intimate Delicacy,”

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“More interested in becoming a work of art than in creating one.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a letter quoted in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume IV (1944-1947)