LA MARQUISE

This heart is a cathedral. Widows, ghosts and lovers sit and sing in the dark arched marrow of me.

[leirelatent]

Franz Von Stuck - “Sin” (1893), (details)

[starlyt]

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star / Slow Like Honey - Fiona Apple

[thestandrewknot]

[oldwinesoul]

“Tell me that you chose me. That you love me. That you crave the darkness.”

—Kristina Haynes, Reassurances To Hades

[chillpotato]

Margaret Atwood

[moonys-bf]

he is half my soul.

the song of achilles by madeleine miller // work song by hozier // unsourced image // achilles come down by gang of youths // unsourced image

[chillpotato]

John Steinbeck // East of Eden

[typewriter-worries]

Heaven is Here, Florence + the Machine | Dante and Virgil in Hell, William-Adolphe Bouguereau

[geometricolaberinto-deactivated]

L’Amore, la Morte e Il Sogno (detail), Roberto Ferri

[megairea]

Radovan Pavlovski, from Maya: I; Reading the Ashes: An Anthology of the Poetry of Modern Macedonia (ed. by Milne Holton & Graham W. Reid)

[heartshop]

Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems

[flowerytale]

Florence and The Machine, from “Girls Against God”

[flowerytale]

Lord Byron — Heaven and Earth

[yourlocalnymphh]

— harshita jhawar, thoughts of you

[nunyums]

[yourlocalnymphh]

D.L. Smith

[daughterofliterature-deactivate]

“I wish you to know

that you have been the last dream of my soul.”

—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities