artemis

it exists, even if it disappears.

[tendermimi]

— John William Waterhouse, Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May

[zosoicons]

like or reblog ࿐ ࿔*:･ﾟ

[nutnoce]

Slouched in a wicker chair, Albert Camus.

[indefiniteterritories]

P.S. Krøyer - Summer evening on Skagen’s Beach. Anna Ancher and Marie Krøyer

P.S. Krøyer, Sommeraften ved Skagens strand. Kunstneren og hans hustru, 1899

[tribonio]

Santa Chiara

[strinians2007-deactivated202008]

women just thinking about eachother lol

[quotethat]

“What is a queen without her king?” I don’t know, but let’s ask Cleopatra, Nefertiti, Hatshepsut, Sammuramat, Victoria, Elizabeth, Amina Tzu-hsi and the countless other kingless queens who turned mere kingdoms into the greatest of Empires.”

— Nikita Gill

[wordsnquotes]

“I’m not everything I want to be, but I’m more than I was, and I’m still learning.”

— Charlotte Eriksson, Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“There is a sort of stagnation in my soul. I am not disappointed, I am not tired, I am not depressed, but simply everything has suddenly become less interesting. I must do something to rouse myself.”

— Anton Chekhov, from a diary entry written c. November 1888

[lifeinpoetry]

“we call a thing / lovely only after we have broken it.”

— Irène Mathieu, from “long distance,” published in wildness

[lifeinpoetry]

“I don’t know how to want without consuming.”

— Jody Chan, from “Elegy for the Pre-Packaged Pie I Ate on March 14, 2018,” published in Hot Metal Bridge

[books-n-quotes]

“There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.”

— Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

[everypearlsuninsides]

“Sometimes in late summer I won’t touch anything, not the flowers, not the blackberries brimming in the thickets; I won’t drink from the pond; I won’t name the birds or the trees; I won’t whisper my own name. One morning the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident, and didn’t see me—and I thought: so this is the world. I’m not in it. It is beautiful.”

— Mary Oliver, October (excerpt)

[lifeinpoetry]

I worry that my friends will misunderstand my silence

as a lack of love, or interest, instead of a tent city built for my own mind

— Tarfia Faizullah, from “Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth,” published in Poem-a-Day

[dean-colette-deactivated2026050]

controversial writing tip

open a document and start writing

[henderys]

unrealistic. blocked,

[daloy-politsey-deactivated20171]

Some facts:

1) Black Americans created jazz. 2) Jewish Americans created comic books. 3) These things are said to be the only original American art forms.

[lohver]

if life has treated you like trash and you still make an effort to be a good person i appreciate you. thank you.