laura

[achillesinhighheels]

Sleeping Muse

By Misha Frid

[sleepyg0rl]

michaela stark “floating ribbons” asymmetric corset in baby pink

- via pinkmochhi on tw 

[petaltexturedskies]

One day you’ll have whatever it is you’re now so confusedly seeking. That kind of calm that comes from knowing oneself and others. But you can’t rush the arrival of that state of mind. There are things you only learn when no one teaches them. And that’s how it is with life. There’s even more beauty in discovering it for yourself, in spite of the suffering.

Clarice Lispector, from “Gertrudes asks for advice” in The Complete Stories

[fashionsfromhistory]

Costume for Giselle in Act II worn by Alicia Markova

James Bailey

1953

Victoria & Albert Museum

[perfectquote]

“You kiss me with your mouth wide open like you’re not afraid of swallowing poison. I taste the good and bad in you and want them both. We call this bravery.”

— Anita Ofokansi

[seaphine]

we all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss.

[llleighsmith]

“I thought she was sleeping until I heard her call out from across the room, “Will you bring me a glass of water?” I did. Then in her always-sleepy tone and drawl she said, “Do you remember when you were a little girl and you would ask your mama to bring you a glass of water?” Yeah. “You know how half the time you weren’t even thirsty. You just wanted that hand that was attached to that glass that was attached to that person you just wanted to stay there until you fell asleep.” She took the glass of water that I brought her and just sat it down full on the table next to her. Wow, I thought. What am I gonna do with love like this.”

— One Night from Dito Montiel’s A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints

[carouselfawn]

solid perfume necklace in the shape of a mussel from estée lauder, 1974

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[pollen]

Mary Oliver, from "Such Singing in the Wild Branches"

[everseasons]

[soldier-of-death]

im only attracted to worthy opponents

[primulaceas]

Maggie Nelson, Bluets

[ghostlywriterr]

Art Nouveau Villa Ruggeri in Pesaro. Italy

[luthienne]

Mahmoud Darwish, from Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)

For context: this is written within a work regarding the siege of Beirut in 1982. “Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)?” (x)

[theoptia]

Hermann Hesse, from Reflections

[lifeinpoetry]

I am, in most parts, made / entirely of longing.

— Saddiq Dzukogi, from Book Three, Bakandamiya