[thememedaddy]

[andrumedus]

“I would never tie you down, not even with garlands of roses. I don’t want anything from you that doesn’t come from your own impulse, like water from the springs.”

— Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “XLVI”

[prophetic-memory]

Hsüeh T’ao, "Gazing at Spring"

[withbriefthanksgiving]

元代徐再思曲作

平生不会相思 才会相思 便害相思

蟾官曲 - 春情 (To the Tune of Moon Palace - Spring Passions) by Xu Zaisi 徐再思

All his life, he had known not what it meant to yearn Newly, he learned to yearn； Thence, ceaselessly, he yearned.

[thatshowthingstarted]

Bowl with Face, Mississippian, Missouri, United States,

11th–14th century,

Ceramic, H. 4 in. x diam. 6 3/8 in. (10.2 x 16.2 cm)

Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum

[achillesinhighheels]

[voidpostings1]

Falling in love..

[toyastales]

A Byzantine Gold Collier with Emeralds, Sapphires, Amethysts and Pearls, from a workshop in Constantinople (late 6th-7th Century AD).

[eroscestlavie]

I need to stop replying to “how do you make friends in your 30s?” threads because all my answers boil down to “you have to want to know people instead of have friends” and I don’t think people wanna hear that

[loveridden1999]

[nixscriptum]

[free-my-mindd]

[santners]

BLACK SAILS | 1.06 - VI.

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Poetry Card, edo period

[livethroughtthis]

I hate hookup culture bury me beside you

[burningvelvet]

heathcliff digging up cathy's grave not once but twice

[athanza]

From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

[7pleiades7]

Le repos des nymphes au retour de la chasse (also known as Diana Returning from the Hunt and Nymphs Reposing from the Chase), (Detail), (1745), by François Boucher (French, 1703 – 1770), oil on canvas, 37 cm × 52 cm (15 in × 20 in), Musée Cognacq-Jay