[enamouredpoet-deactivated202205]

“flowers and mirror” - abbott fuller graves

[soracities]

Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch (trans. Gregory Rabassa)

[Text ID: “I’m waiting uselessly for myself.”]

[artfoli]

Still-life with Oranges, c. 1863, Rafael Romero Barros (1832-1895)

[primulaceas]

Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask (translated by Meredith Weatherby)

[thisdayinwwi]

Apr 16 1916 War Photographer Ernest Brooks took these pictures of The King’s Liverpool Regiment, 55th Division, moving along trenches leading to the front line near to Blairville Wood, Wailly.

IWM Q 524, IWM Q 527, IWM Q 525

April 16 1916

Production date: 1916-04-16

[thisdayinwwi]

April 16 1916 Ernest Brooks takes this photo, IWM Q 534, of a sentry in the front line trenches at Blaireville using mirror periscope.

16 April 1916-04-16

[fuckindiva]

Aeschylus’ (?) Prometheus Bound (tr. David Grene)

[dahliaborne]

Persephone by John Aleshire

[robert-hadley]

Wool embroidered Pillow Cover, England, 1850.

Source: cooperhewitt.org

[artschoolglasses]

Forum of Nerva

Rome, Italy

[most4rdently]

“When I wrote that letter,” replied Darcy, “I believed myself perfectly calm and cool, but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit.”

[artandchocolate]

Susan Sontag - “Death Kit”

[mitakuye-oyasinn]

Set of three Coiled Snakes, Bronze, possibly Spain or Germany, 1570-1629, detail. © The Wallace Collection

[firstfullmoon]

“I thought I understood your longing—it looked so much like mine.”

— Rebecca Lindenberg, excerpt of “Love, An Index”, from Love, An Index (via antigonick)

[metamorphesque]

1. Madeline Miller 2. Suzy Kassem 3. Susan Sontag

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

Undersong, ‘Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices’ (1979, 1989) by Audre Lorde

[ID: I am wary of need that tastes like destruction.]

[madeleineengland]

Church of San Tiburzio, Parma, for the Florilegium exhibition by Rebecca Louise Law, during the Institutional event “Parma Capital of Culture 2020” (Italy)

Rebecca Louise Law is a british artist, best known for artworks and floral installations created with natural materials, and her talent would offer an alternative concept of beauty.

For this specific exhibition they used 200 thousand flowers. The title Florilegium comes from the Latin “to keep and to preserve flowers”.

[alrauna]