un trop plein d'amour

[calleido]

[boschintegral-photo]

Spring In The Countryside

[nemfrog]

Auricula or mountain cowslip. Temple of Flora. 1812. Robert John Thornton.

Internet Archive

[mournfulroses]

Ōtomo no Yakamochi, from a poem featured in From the country of Eight Islands; an anthology of Japanese Poetry

[mournfulroses]

Takahama Kyoshi, from a poem featured in From the country of Eight Islands; an anthology of Japanese Poetry

[mournfulroses]

Anton Chekhov, from a letter to Alexei Suvorin featured in The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

[mournfulroses]

Hélène Cixous, from her book titled The Book of Promethea, originally published in 1983

[kaiserouo]

pov you see something alive after being alone for 40 years

[flowerytale]

May Sarton, from “Contemplation of Poussin”, Letters from Maine

[bones-ivy-breath]

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I'm torn in half. / I eat myself.

[morallyambiguous]

upstream, mary oliver; gravity and grace, simone weil; journal of a solitude, may sarton

[dk-thrive]

… and then I think of my solitude and realize again that I am truly married to it and without it would be even more nerve-racked and impossible than I am.

— May Sarton, The House by the Sea: A Journal (W. W. Norton & Company, 1977)

[bigartattack]

Untitled - Charles Martin

[zegalba]

Toshihiko Takamizawa's custom ESP angel guitar

[a-state-of-bliss]

Olivier Theyskens Spr/Sum 1999

[coffee-quotes]

—Banana Yoshimoto, "Kitchen"

[mournfulroses]

Banana Yoshimoto, from her novel titled "The Premonition," originally published in 2015

[thehopefulquotes]

“There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that.”

— Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen