of words and sorrows

visval poetry

[mournfulroses]

Edgar Allan Poe, from Tamerlane & Other Poems of E. A. P.; “The Sleeper,”

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Franz Kafka // Richard Siken

[mournfulroses]

Adonis, from a poem titled “Unintended Worship,” featured in If Only the Sea Could Sleep

[oldpaintings]

The Scottish Highlands, 1875 by Gustave Doré (French, 1832–1883)

[oatzmeal]

hogwarts house common rooms from harry potter: magic awakened

[metamorphesque]

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

[mahoganyamore]

white nights, white lies

[wildelypoetic]

Knowledge, magic, science, witchcraft.

All the same.

People fear that which what they do not understand.

[epiph-annie]

Will you see the human in my being?

[naturepoetry-deactivated2018070]

From Fairy Gold : A Book Of Old English Fairy Tales by Ernest Rhys, c.1913

[elixirplethora-deactivated20240]

[shisasan]

𝚁𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚃𝚊𝚐𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍 – 𝟿 [𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟽-𝟷𝟿𝟺𝟷]

[gothyween]

❄️🕯️ 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒔: 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑𝒔://𝒑𝒊𝒏.𝒊𝒕/𝟖𝑽𝒀𝒗𝒙𝟓𝟏

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Manuel Bandeira, from “This Earth, That Sky.”

[wedarkacademia]

[dark-romantics]

~ Augusto Cury

[the-year-before-time]

“Trollet som grunner på hvor gammelt det er“ by Theodor Kittelsen

“(Troll Wonders How Old He Is)”

[neil-gaiman]

My favourite Kittelsen story was his reaction when he heard another Norwegian artist had started drawing Trolls as well. “How can he draw Trolls?” he is said to have asked. “He’s never seen a troll.”