forget me not

xvi | infp | s. africa I would know him in death at the end of the world

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Saint Michael the Archangel by Francesco Cozza, 1650

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Sylvia Plath, “Elm.”

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the thing is, ellen bass / for example, mary oliver 

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“I’m not a stable person, and often I encounter great difficulties in life, which often seems quite unbearable. There’s nothing I can do about that. But I love the world and life itself, and, even when in pain, I still have the pleasure of feeling part of a cosmic movement.”

— hermann hesse

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when the ghosts come ashore: things i should say to myself in the mirror or things i would say to the city of st. louis if it could hear me, jacqui germain

[learnbouquet]

Dead Poets Society (1989)  dir. Peter Weir

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Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.   atonement (2007) dir. joe wright

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Mist in the early morning, the Netherlands [5053 x 3369] [OC] - Author: Aurorain on reddit

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Michael Cunningham, from “The Hours,” originally published c. 1998

[aredhels]

mythology family ♥︎ cyparissus for @queerfrodo

in greek mythology, cyparissus was a handsome youth of the island of ceos, who was loved by the god apollo. he died of grief after accidentally killing his beloved pet stag and was transformed into a cypress tree.

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Anton Chekhov, from a diary entry featured in “The Notebook of Anton Chekhov,”

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“I’m flesh and blood Clive, if you’ll condescend to such low things.” Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory 

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Saint Ignatius and Saint Francis Borgia  beholding an eucharistic allegory (Detail), 1674. By Juan de Valdés Leal

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Roses, c. 1890. Abbott Handerson Thayer

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“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes

[nocturnalpoets]

“This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me” ― Emily Dickinson

[heavenlycreatures]

on soulmates

f. scott fitzgerald / friedrich nietzsche / florence and the machine / andrea dworkin / kiersten white / euripides / audre lorde / phillip pullmann / bob hicok

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dave malloy, “no one else”

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Hugh Grant in Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory