aprés moi, le dèluge

'About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.'

[battlevilla]

[danishprince]

naturally, instead of doing homework, i spent an hour making this english major alignment chart. tag yourself!

[glorianas]

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.

[sourhearts]

[arthistoryminor]

Blue Wallpapers & Textiles // William Morris // Mid-19th Century

[thefoxhuntingman]

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

[by-grace-of-god]

Le Figaro have a newly published photograph from inside Notre Dame shortly before the roof collapsed, as molten lead fell into the nave. (+)

[jasmineandviolet]

“I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.”

— From her diary (October 2, 1932)

[robpilled]

horse dogs

[lesfoudres]

[liltify]

Ireland, 1940

[grundoonmgnx]

Noel McKenna, Dog at Dinner Table, 2015

[weltenwellen]

Rilke Rainer Maria, Selected Letters, 1902-1922

[dearestvita-deactivated20221122]

Vita Sackville-West’s letters to Violet Trefusis, 1940-1950s

[syringavulgaris]

Mary Oliver, Worm Moon

[julieschulerart]

Executioner’s Alphabet, Hand embroidered tapestry in progress,

E-H

[skruttet]

Every black-and-white illustration of Snufkin in the 2018 Sort Of Books Collector’s Edition of Tales from Moominvalley

[ivressesdhier]

The signs as Virginia Woolf quotes

Aries : “Now I will relinquish; now I will let loose. Now I will at last free the checked, the jerked-back desire to be spent, to be consumed.”

Taurus : “How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave;”

Gemini : “[Her] eyes break into a thousand lights.”

Cancer : “She often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.”

Leo : “Consume me, carry me to the furthest limit.”

Virgo : “…I live; I die; the sea comes over me; it’s the blue that lasts.”

Libra : “Change was incessant, and change perhaps would never cease. High battlements of thought, habits that had seemed durable as stone, went down like shadows at the touch of another mind and left a naked sky and fresh stars twinkling in it.”

Scorpio : “It is the soul that matters, its passion, its tumult, its astonishing melody of beauty and vileness.”

Sagittarius : “[…] a self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”

Capricorn : “Yet sometimes one trembling star comes in the clear sky and makes me think the world beautiful.”

Aquarius : “What is the meaning of life? That was all – a simple question. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”

Pisces : “She was beautifully adapted for life in another planet. But the natural genius she had for conducting affairs there was of no real use to her here.”