strange angel ,

𝑎𝑒𝑠𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐       𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑔       𝑡𝑜       𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚍

[jiangwanyin]

— vladimir nabokov, in a letter to his wife [24 march 1937] from letters to véra (trans. olga voronina & brian boyd)

[filmaticbby]

Caught Looking (1991) dir. Constantine Giannaris

[weltenwellen]

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

[antigonick]

“—if only he were the mirror I face each morning.”

— Izumi Shikibu, excerpt of “Wishing to See Him—”, trans. by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani in The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono No Komachi & Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Herman Reinstein, from Poetry; “Infinitives,” originally published c. April 1924

[filmaticbby]

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

[c0ssette]

Auguste Ottin (Detail) Polyphemus Surprising Acis and Galatea,1866,the Fontaine Médicis.

[shisasan]

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚎𝚖𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙾𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚛 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚎, 𝙴𝚗𝚍𝚢𝚖𝚒𝚘𝚗 (𝟷𝟾𝟿𝟼)

[shisasan]

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚎𝚖𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙾𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚛 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚎, 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚜 (𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟾𝟷)

[rulingthumb]

[shisasan]

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚎𝚖𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙾𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚛 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚎, 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚜 (𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟾𝟷)

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[shisasan]

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚎𝚖𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙾𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚛 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚎, 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚜 (𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟾𝟷)

[luthienne]

Franz Wright, from God's Silence; "Four Poems of Youth”

[Text ID: Do you know this terror—not to remember?]

[birdasaurus]

Anais Wade

[twirld]

At the hamam (detail) William Arthur Breakspeare

[kuutamosonaatti]

The Borgias 2.07 The Siege at Forli