@daydreamforyou - Tumblr Blog

Venice… Its temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Restored footage from 1896 of Venice, Italy seen from a gondola on the Grand Canal.

This footage was shot by pioneering filmmaker Alexandre Promio and is believed to be the first film that features a moving shot.

reading-books-in-the-moonlight

violentwavesofemotion-deactivat

“Are you aware that the word “passion” means “suffering”?”

— Victor Hugo, from a letter to Adèle Foucher written c. March 1822

permament-witzelsucht

Adriaen van de Velde | The Martelaarsgracht in Amsterdam, c.1670 | View of Oudezijds Voorburgwal with the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, c.1670 |

bones-ivy-breath

The Litany of Satan or Les Litanies de Satan by Charles Pierre Baudelaire, from The Flowers of Evil (tr. William Aggeler)

stars-in-the-storm

rip Achilles you would've loved hightop sneakers

slightlyacademia

-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

typewriter-worries

If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio

slightlyacademia

“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.” ― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic