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lover of beautiful things

[nemfrog]

The sun. Illustrated title page, detail.

Mundus subterraneus : in XII libros digestus. 1665. Athanasius Kircher.

Science History Institute

[elegantzombielite]

"One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment."

Hart Crane, poet (1899-1932)

[slowlikehoney1996]

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

[cottaqecore]

source

[mournfulroses]

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

[overclassy]

[midnightinshadow]

[shisasan]

June 1962, Anne Sexton, from Complete Poems (1928-1974) first published 1981

[metamorphesque]

― Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse (translated by Irene Ash)

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[naryamirie]

just saw this personal ad from 1966 (sourced here) and god. this is really it

[museiums]

annie steg gerard

[pmamtraveller]

lunar corona, colorful rings around the moon.

[gothredy]

[mournfulroses]

Li Qingzhao, from a poem titled "Late Spring," featured in The Complete Poems of Li Qingzhao

[leungchiuwai]

花樣年華 / in the mood for love (2000), dir. 王家衛

[mournfulroses]

Ted Hughes, from a poem titled "Song," featured in Love Is Like The Lion's Tooth: An Anthology of Love Poems