[malnedott]

sebastiano ricci’s hands in various paintings 🍃

[bleedingsalt]

new ask game send me an emoji and i’ll give you a line from one of my favorite poems

[achillesdespair]

hands.

[sorryforthebonyelbows]

When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Richard Siken, Crush

[pslyshy]

Romeo and juliet by francis bernard dicksee

[nymphpens]

Dorian Gray really said, "Be Gay, Do Crime"

[etherealwanda-deactivated202204]

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”

—M.L.Rio

pc :: @fatimareads_ in instagram.

[elderbwrry]

I think you should be allowed to cite notes people have made in the margins of university library books as criticism

[thewordsaholic]

what i want back is what i was.

[queenmoriarty]

Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,'

That showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does.

And I think that mine is this:

A morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs

~Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[readinghoneybee]

“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”

[sidereusimber]

Credit: odilepauline

[jesuishind-deactivated20211010]

Touch.

[antiquariant]

starting the week with a little study session at the library, borrowing some books and walking around the campus after soft rain. 🧦🕰☕️🎞

[shazadlatifgf-deactivated202301]

Maurice (1987), dir. James Ivory - deleted scene

[dark-sappho]

listen...spray some of that nice perfume...use the good hand cream...wear that outfit even if you are just staying home...light those special candles you have been saving...enjoy those little things even if there is no occasion

[justpoetrythings]

Paintings inspired by John Keats’s ballad; La belle Dame sans Merci (1819)

Sir Frank Dicksee (1902)/Marc Fishman (1971)/John William Waterhouse (1893)/“Lamia”, John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)/Arthur Hughes (1861-63)/Walter Crane (1865)