water nymph

art, poetry, hopeless romantic history student. Languages: English (native), Spanish (advanced) german (low-intermediate) russian (beginner) Ig: poison_iveh

[mortisia]

“Nature is a haunted house - but Art - is a house that tries to be haunted.” 

― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems

[pre-raphaelisme]

Pharmakeutria (Brewing The Love Philtre) by Marie Spartali Stillman, 1870

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“I changed this October into dream.”

— Louis Aragon, tr. by Lous MacNeice, “The Unoccupied Zone,” c. 1931

[fashionweeksfaves]

John Galliano Spring 2019 Details 

[poeticrose]

“The autumn is a faery hall”

— Boris Pasternak, from In the Interlude: Poems (1945-1960): “Golden Autumn” 

[sigma-klim]

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Torso of the goddess Venus Anadyomene (“Venus Rising From the Sea”). Faience, Egyptian blue, 12 cms. Graeco-Roman Period, ca. 30 BC - 300 AD. Now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.

[barcarole]

Lauren Bacall, ca. 1946.

[alwaysmeek]

Stay loyal no matter the distance.

[nocturnovs]

“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn’t trust the evidence of one’s eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.”

— Edward Said, Orientalism (via proletarianfeminism)

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Helen Mirren

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Lynda Carter

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[qvotable]

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald // This Side of Paradise

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

Vita & Virginia dir. Chanya Button (2018)

[horreurscopes]

do you ever get into one of those moods where your heart aches and longs for something so deeply but you dont know what and your heart is like a stubborn toddler screaming i want it !!!! please give it to me !!!! And you’re desperately like i don’t know what kind of emotionally fulfilling experience to give you at 3 PM on a Wednesday !!!!!!!!!

[medievalthymes]

“On an October night when witchery can occur…”

— Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems (1999); “February Third,”