[cuddlythecactus]

When Haruki Murakami said, "Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum - a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself." And when Audrey Hepburn said, "Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."

[a-photo-of-a-ghost]

*wearing my frilly gay little poet shirt omw to seduce the ghost of a regency era poet*

[flowerytale]

Isabel Allende ― Daughter of Fortune

[bouquetofproses]

I fell in love with someone who regularly sends me Neruda and Cummings. I don’t know how I found him.

[yearningheart]

babe wake up the new franz kafka diary entry that eerily parallels your feelings and situations corresponding to each specific date just dropped

[nydle]

reporting live from the war i constructed in my own head

[weltenwellen]

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

[metamorphesque]

Every time I wrote your name, I lied. Every time I wrote your name, it was the truth.

1.Clarice Lispector | 2.Nickie Zimov | 3.Warsan Shire | 4.Pablo Neruda | 5.Madeline Miller | 6.Nickie Zimov | 7.Madeline Miller | 8.Vincent van Gogh | 9.James Joyce | 10.Nick Lantz | 11.Ocean Vuong | 12.Nickie Zimov | 13.Richard Brautigan | 14.Keaton St. James 

[philamuseum]

The trend of miniature eye portraits being used as tokens of love originated in 1785 with the secret marriage between Prince George of Wales and Maria Anne Fitzherbert. They allowed secret lovers to send a memento in which the owner of the eye was recognizable only to the recipient.

“Portrait of a Woman’s Right Eye,” around 1800, England. "Portrait of a Right Eye,“ around 1800, England. ”Portrait of Sarah Best’s Right Eye,“ around 1800–10, England. ”Portrait of a Left Eye,“ around 1800, England. ”Portrait of a Right Eye,“ around 1800–10, England. ”Portrait of a Left Eye,“ around 1800, England. 

[bouquetofproses]

When is the American Education System going to acknowledge PE class is extraordinarily outdated and ableist?

For example, I had asthma all throughout school. When it came to running the mile, they always said “You can use your inhaler when you leave class.”

No. Inhalers are preventative, not an end all. If I feel like I desperately need my inhaler, it’s too late. If I’m having an asthma attack, it’s too late. I had to go to the hospital numerous times. Therefore not only was my already-below-the-poverty-line family struck with an uninsured medical bill, but my overall grade would be affected, thus slimming my college opportunities.

And for what? What does running a mile have to do with majoring in Computer Science? Or Linguistics? History? Why should I be failed for having a respiratory disease?

It’s a change I feel as though we need to acknowledge. Don’t even get me started on my friend who had childhood onset arthritis.

[bouquetofproses]

The average salary where I live is $12,000 a year.

The cheapest trade school I have ever found locally was $30,000.

The cheapest community college is $25,00 per semester.

I would have to work between 3-5 years, with no sick days, before taxes, without spending a single penny for only one year of college. That’s not even a degree.

You look at me, someone who dreamed of being the first person in their family to go to college, and tell me how I’m not supposed to be fucking heart broken about it.

[ancientsstudies]

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

- Marguerite de Navarre

[tendergazing]

oh to live in a peter brown’s painting

[wistful-giselle]

just thinking of how our meaning or purpose in life is merely to experience. eating an orange segment, hoping for snow, being in love, returning over and over to one painting, stepping outside for the full moon, submersion in water, having a favourite colour, knowing beauty, feeling alone, feeling connected, feeling longing… it is enough. 

[da-da-sk]

12 museums that you can visit online

www.hermitagemuseum.org

britishmuseum.org

www.louvre.fr

www.museodelprado.es

collections.vam.ac.uk

www.moma.org

www.khm.at

www.digitalsculpture.org

www.tnm.jp

artsandculture.google.com

collections.lacma.org

collections.rom.on.ca

[neshamama]

metropolitan musem guide to virtual museum / collections / timeline of art / youtube / over 500 books free online / 360º project

the broad collections

tate collections

reina sofia collections / multimedia

rijkysmuseum collections

tokyo national museum e-museum / collections

detroit institute of arts collections

yale university gallery of art collections

harvard art museums collections

whitney museum collections / videos

israel museum jerusalem collections

jewish museum new york collections

walker art center collections

indianapolis museum of art collections

mfa boston collections / youtube

figge art museum collections

american folk art museum collections

museum of international folk art collections

art institute chicago virtual visit / collections / articles

van gogh museum virtual visit / collections

mfa houston collections

google arts and culture virtual tours, images, online exhibitions: national gallery d.c. / smithsonian portrait gallery / metropolitan museum / detroit institute of arts / j. paul getty museum / high museum of art atlanta / georgia o’keeffe museum to name a few of hundreds

[nimblesnotebook-blog]

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[justpoetrythings]

My dear,

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.

For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.

Falsely Yours, Charles Bukowski