Puella Aurelianensis

"I am too pure for you or anyone." -Sylvia Plath ❥ Sabina | ♀ | mexicana | capricorn |

[stlamb]

source

[partizany]

[asoftwrongness]

ode to Flora

[sixpenceee]

X-ray image of a pregnant cat with six kittens. 

[my-darling-boy]

Done with society!! I’m just gonna be

[bluebeardsbride-deactivated2021]

“I, too, can create desolation” — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

“I, too, create corpses” — Sylvia Plath, from ‘Three Women’

[eliamatrell]

— SYLVIA PLATH, from Lady Lazarus.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

She eats the hearts first, before they go bad–as all hearts will.

Jessica D. Thompson, from Circe’s Lament; “Diana, Slade, Kentucky c. 1975,”  (via cavalcade-of-perversion)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I was in pain and nobody knew it; even I had trouble knowing it.

Susanna Kaysen, from “Girl, Interrupted,” originally published c. 1993 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[dearestvita-deactivated20221122]

Sappho, tr. by Anne Carson

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, 1847 

[theotreptos]

Elektra, Sophocles, trans. Anne Carson, from An Oresteia

[missmountain-deactivated2021101]

[nehmesis]

Margaret Atwood, published on Eating Fire;

[galdrigge-blog]

Eglon Hendrik van der Neer (1634? - 1703)  Judith (ca.1678)  

[simena]

Julius Adam the Younger

[lifeinpoetry]

Empyrean,

your hunger hurts you awake. The sin is not the wanting, it’s the wanting more.

— Traci Brimhall, from “Chthonic Lullaby,” Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod