scheherazade

sweet raptured light, it ends here tonight.

[booksandothersecrets]

When Emily Brönte said “I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it”

[merulae]

“The French called this time of day ‘l’heure bleue.’ To the English it was ‘the gloaming.’ The very word ‘gloaming’ reverberates, echoes—the gloaming, the glimmer, the glitter, the glisten, the glamour—carrying in its consonants the images of houses shuttering, gardens darkening, grass-lined rivers slipping through the shadows. During the blue nights you think the end of day will never come. As the blue nights draw to a close (and they will, and they do) you experience an actual chill, at the moment you first notice: the blue light is going, the days are already shortening, the summer is gone.”

— Joan Didion, Blue Nights

[requiem-on-water]

(1) Thom Browne (f/w 2024), (2) Schiaparelli (f/w 2022), (3) Roberto Cavalli (f/w 2000), (4) Schiaparelli (f/w 2021), (5) Iris van Herpen (f/w 2011), (6) Olivier Theyskens (f/w 1998)

[weltenwellen]

Rita Dove, from “Voiceover“

[weltenwellen]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

[v-ersacrum]

Benvenuto Tisi (Il Garofalo), Annunciation (details), 1528

[weltenwellen]

May Sarton, The Poetry of May Sarton

[simena]

Artista Toscano Del XVII Secolo (detail)

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

No, we're not soulmates. This is not divine intervention. And this is most certainly not chance. I willed this. I knit the threads of fate myself until they spelled your name.

I love you intentionally. I love you with every bit of conscience I was born with.

— marsadist (via twitter)

[metamorphesque]

from "Ode to the West Wind", Percy Bysshe Shelley

[spiritofthemeadow]

ig - afternoondreams

[wordscanbeenough]

Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband

[flowerytale]

Clarice Lispector ― The Hour of the Star

[weltenwellen]

Nooshin Ghanbari, from "transient"

[remindereminder]

[khizuo]

Rola

Gazan girl In the midst of chaos and conflict, she resiliently pursues her ambitions, fueled by a determination to live and realize her drea

Rola is a Gazan who has been documenting the ongoing genocide on twitter. She is trying to leave Gaza to live her life and fulfill her dreams, so please share widely and contribute!

[zegalba]

Azuma Makoto: X-Ray Flowers (2023)

[artemisiasea]

When Toni Morrison said the grandeur of life is the attempt, not the solution… And how she went on to explain that it’s about behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances. The power that has, you know? It’s really just the making room for what breathes in the presence of the attempt. In the coming-to-be.