Ennui of Conquerors

Staggering beneath the piled centuries since paradise

[weltenwellen]

To Be Alive Gregory Orr

[petaltexturedskies]

Sara Teasdale, from “The Kiss”

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Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

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Hyperion

Friedrich Hölderlin, Tr. Ross Benjamin

[weltenwellen]

“Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”

— Richard Siken, Editors Page: The Long and the Short of It

[heinrichheineee]

From the Wikipedia page of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768)

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, Fire: From A Journal of Love, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin 1934-1937

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Letter of Friedrich Hölderlin to Casimir Ulrich Böhlendorff (December 4, 1801)

Source: The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning Play, tr. David Farrell Krell

[brightdeadthing]

love as recognition

anna gavalda / friedrich nietzsche / clarice lispector / jandy nelson / rebecca perry / mhairi mcfarlane

[flowerytale]

Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

[metamorphesque]

"The Dance", Siamanto (translated by Peter Balakian)

[heinrichheineee]

“I have the madness to believe that I have been useful.”

— Dominique Villars, a French botanist, in a letter dated: 18 January 1805

Source: Roger L. Williams, Dr. Villars and his botanical disciples, Huntia: A Journal of Botanical History, Volume 15, Number 1, 2014

[jondrettegirls]

[ID: A page of a play. It reads as follows, "Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. / Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. / Theseus: Stain them, I don't care." End text.]

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

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Euripides, Ion. Translated by Philip Vellacott

[flowerytale]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Idiot

[appleinducedsleep]

I suppose most children fall in love with faeries at some point, but my fascination was never about magic or the granting of wishes. The Folk were of another world, with its own rules and customs-and to a child who always felt ill-suited to her own world, the lure was irresistible.

Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

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— William T. Vollmann, The Ice-Shirt