Dark Academia, Poetry & Literature

18 | 𝓐𝓷𝓷𝓪 | 𝓗𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓡𝓸𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓬 | 𝓗𝓾𝓯𝓯𝓵𝓮𝓹𝓾𝓯𝓯 | 𝓢𝓸𝓯𝓽𝓲𝓮 𝚁𝚘𝚖𝚎, 𝙸𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚢

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"What are men to rocks and mountains?" -Jane Austen

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¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,

una sombra, una ficción,

y el mayor bien es pequeño:

que toda la vida es sueño,

y los sueños, sueños son.

What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion,

A shadow, a delirium, a fiction.

The greatest good's but little, and this life

Is but a dream, and dreams are only dreams.

~ Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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'I cared about you too much,' said Dumbledore simply. 'I cared more for you happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for you life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.'

An extract of the conversation between Dumbledore and Harry in the second-to-last chapter of The Order of the Phoenix

[dykeninthdoctor]

idk i just wanna sit in a dark library in an oversized sweater and smile at my lover over the top of my book as a storm rages on outside and a fire crackles in the fireplace and i feel warm and safe and loved is that too much to ask for

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"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings" -Plato

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Yeah life's good but what about owning an orchard and selling your sweet fruits in the village market where, at the same time, you also set up a little free, independent library??

[literally-studying]

Women Writers (1/?) - x

↳ Charlotte Brontë:  “Better to be without logic than without feeling.”

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Ōdī et amō. Quārē id faciam fortasse requīris.

Nesciō, sed fierī sentiō et excrucior.

I hate and I love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask.

I know not, but I feel it happening and I am tortured.

-Catullus

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This fantastical mix of Ancient Greek, Roman Baroque, Mannerist, Medieval, and, overall, Art Nouveau mishmash was brought to life by the Florentine architect Gino Coppedè in 1919. 

[galeru]

[flowerytale]

Isabel Allende ― The House of the Spirits

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This book will be part of my soul forever

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There are two kinds of people: the ones who've had at least one massive crush on a classic author and liars.

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"I would always rather be happy than dignified" -Jane Eyre

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Dear english literature textbooks, please stop defining Jane Austen's life as "uneventful" just because she didn't marry. Thank you.

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Am I the only one that is terribly jealous of poets' lovers?! I mean, imagine how it must be like to inspire a poem like Sappho's "To Me He Seems Like a God" or Leopardi's "To Silvia"!