[sculppp]

Master of the Greenville Tondo (1454 - 1513)

Saint Sebastian. Detail. 1500 - 1510

[a-state-of-bliss]

Julian Sands & Helena Bonham Carter in James Ivory's 'A Room With A View' (1985)

[stardust-musing]

I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more

—Franz Kafka, The Castle

[typewriter-worries]

maybe home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you’re at your worst

On Political(ized) Life, Kanika Lawton | Corner Table, Joseph Lorusso | Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin | Embrace, Peter Wever | Jonathan Carroll | We've Got Each Other, Ron Hicks | Rondeau Redoublé, Dorothy Parker

[freshpickle]

please be nice to me, i'm in my twenties. do you know what that does to a person

[typewriter-worries]

Alegoría de la Caridad, Francisco de Zurbarán | Portrait of Saint Augustine, Philippe de Champaigne | la Caritá, Carlo Dolci | Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov tr. Hugh Aplin

[solitairians]

emily brontë was such an icon for writing a book so strange that after her death her sister felt the need to make a public statement that was like "sorry that this book is so deranged my sister was a little freak who cannot be held responsible for her actions. idk what happened here but my best guess is that she was too sheltered to know things or understand stuff. again sorry. it's kinda good tho" ok charlotte

[sparkling-woter]

at the end of the day, its me and unhinged fictional women against the world

[thingwithfeathers]

enduring love

e.m forster, a room with a view / atonement (2007) / thomas hardy, far from the madding crowd / portrait of a lady on fire (2019) / cassandra clare, city of glass / rainer maria rilke / giovanni gasparro / philip pullman, the amber spyglass.

[so-true-jestie]

i have never been the same since i learned that Beatrice only spills out of iambic pentameter on "thee", like her heartbeat stumbles when she talks about Benedick

[mrschwartz]

the inherent ruthlessness that alex turner sees in love, like when he said “do me a favour and break my nose” and when he said “i’d probably still adore you with your hands around my neck, or i did last time i checked” and when he said “we’re either shouting or we’re shagging” and when he said “you press it to my chest and you make me wheeze, then to my knees you do promote me” and when he said “be cruel to me, cause i’m a fool for you” and when he said “i just want you to do me no good, and you look like you could” and when he said “she turns my back to the earth and shows me that’s where i’m meant to be” and when h

[igoseekthegreatperhaps]

ok but i just know he loves wuthering heights

[faintingheroine-deactivated2024]

(From Spirit Becomes Matter by Henry Staten)

[facinaoris]

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head, Warsan Shire

[awkward-sultana]

The Months, Linda Pastan / Reluctant Goodbyes, O.L. / Unknown / The Londoner / Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte / Tumblr: Honeytuesday / The Pond, Mary Oliver / Robin Bush / Tumblr: Honeytuesday / Greg Sellers / S. Heaney / Letters of Summer Past / Albert Camus / Unknown / Sara Baume / Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt / Unknown / Tumblr: Poetryatmost / Instagram: claudbakes / August, Devotions, Mary Oliver

[dahlia-coccinea]

If the mystic says: “I am because I am God,” or if Descartes says he is because he thinks, Cathy must say: “I am Heathcliff, therefore I exist.” Her hyperbole is the climax and endpoint of the long tradition making love a private religion in which the loved one is God and there is a single worshipper and devotee.

J. Hillis Miller (via dahlia-coccinea)

[awkward-sultana]

Hal Borland / M. Cumulus Life, Illuminations / Mary Quant / Unknown / Take a Load Off, Joanna Franklin Bell / Unknown / The Wild Marsh Four Seasons at Home in Montana, Rick Bass / July Moon, Louise Townsend Nicholl / VSCO: vxdb / The Months, Linda Pastan / Instagram: KJP / Lot, Bryan Washington / Tumblr: nobodysflower

[typewriter-worries]

Lovers do the looking while the strangers look away.

Twilight Conversation, Ron Hicks | Warmth of the Sun, Ron Hicks | Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory | Friends & Lovers, Brenda Hendrix |  Emily L., Marguerite Duras