[mournfulroses]

Bianca Stone, from a poem titled "Set Designer," featured in What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems

[arinewman7]

The Fairy Lovers

Theodor von Holst

oil on canvas, ca. 1840

[389]

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector; "Brasília,"

[joytri]

[petaltexturedskies]

She wasn't crying because of the life she led: because, never having led any other, she'd accepted that with her that was just the way things were. But I think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling.

Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

[pagewoman]

Winter in the Cotswolds

by Ian.W.Stokes

[theotreptos]

“The Iliad accepts violence as a permanent factor in human life and accepts it without sentimentality, for it is just as sentimental to pretend that war does not have its monstrous ugliness as it is to deny that it has its own strange and fatal beauty, a power, which can call out in men resources of endurance, courage and self-sacrifice that peacetime, to our sorrow and loss, can rarely command. Three thousand years have not changed the human condition in this respect; we are still lovers and victims of the will to violence, and so long as we are, Homer will be read as its truest interpreter.”

— Bernard Knox, Introduction to the Iliad trans. Fagles

[butchqueersapphic]

the butch/femme scene of 1990s san francisco by chloe sherman

[mournfulroses]

Charlotte Brontë, from her novel titled "Jane Eyre," originally published in 1847

[old-school-romantics]

[metamorphesque]

"Beautiful Losers", Leonard Cohen

[enchantedbook]

Emily Bronte 's "Wuthering Heights" illustrated by Rovina Cai.

[classicalcanvas]

Lamia and the Soldier (1905) by John William Waterhouse

[mournfulroses]

Emily Brontë, from "Wuthering Heights," originally published in 1847

[liones-s]

found this lovely old copy of Brontë at the second hand store

[shakespearesdaughters]

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