Sing me to sleep

[soracities]

“I went out. The beach was dark and lonely. I lay down in the sand. I wept inconsolably for what was dying in me and even before it had the chance to live.”

Josefina Vicens, The Empty Book

[avgeneis]

I ache for the world and I run away from it

[driflloon]

林小宅 / hana lin

[antoniettabrandeisova]

A Favour (detail) 1898. Edmund Leighton

[tristealven]

“Spring has kissed everyone again,”

— George Sarandaris, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; “Spring Will Commit Murder,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[fairieworld]

༺♡༻

[bienenkiste]

Photographed by Andrew Nuding for Simone Rocha S/S 2021

[bybabydolls]

Simone Rocha Spring 2021 Ready-to-Wear

[lifeinpoetry]

“live yourself / straightthrough, without clock.”

— — Paul Celan, from “[The industrious],” Breathturn into Timestead, tr. Pierre Joris

[exocean]

don’t call me || key

[mooneis]

English 101 with Taemin

[theclassicsreader]

“Why, what’s the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”

— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

[zjeali]

[xshayarsha]

“…her arms full of books, and her eyes blazing like two poisoned moons.”

— Helen Oyeyemi, from Mr Fox.

[nomorechoirs]

fr. “Extracting the Stone of Madness” by Alejandra Pizarnik, trans. Yvette Siegert

[kafk-a]

Joanna Klink, from The Nightfields

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

seemoreandmore:

“Kyōka suigetsu 鏡花水月(Japanese) - An idiom with the literal translation of “flower in the mirror & a moon in the water”, and references something which is visible and cannot be touched as well as the profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words.”