Queen of Monsters

[undinesea]

What we sense is that the eternal is within us.

Hélène Picard, “The Inspired,” from Sabbat, translation by Brian Stableford

[derangedrhythms]

Desire to gaze on stars and angels.

Georg Trakl, Surrender to Night: Collected Poems of Georg Trakl: Poems Published in Der Brenner; from 'Lament', tr. Will Stone

[jennylemonsuck]

[mournfulroses]

Paul Verlaine, from a poem titled "Lover's Chat", featured in 100 and One Poems by Paul Verlaine

[pink111shit]

[les-fleur]

Vampyr (1932, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)

[derangedrhythms]

and the aura of you remains, remains, remains . . .

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters ⁠— W. D. Snodgrass, 11th January 1959

[inkpressedpetals]

[inkpressedpetals]

[guzhufuren]

jesus christ i'm so stressed for him

[livesunique]

Lismore Castle, Lismore, County Waterford, Republic of Ireland,

Credit: Bill Phelps

[blondebrainpowered]

Two children ignoring the artwork at the San Francisco Museum of Art. ca. 1960s

Photographer: Herb Slodounik

[briargeese]

Ripples, a mirage, a beautiful day at the lake.

[lifeinpoetry]

The wound, / the past, is still bleeding.

— Saddiq Dzukogi, from Book Two, Bakandamiya

[theoptia]

Clarice Lispector, from Selected Cronicas

[quotespile]

“‘Something’s died in me,’ she goes. ‘It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.’”

— Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

[infected]

Alnwick Castle, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1829