un ange en exil

et in arcadia ego

[eyeheartangels]

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[artist-sargent]

Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain (recto and verso), John Singer Sargent, c. 1902, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond Size: 11.5 x 18.4 cm (4 ½ x 7 ¼ in.) Medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/197746

[bibliotheca-sanctus]

[quotingliterature-blog]

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Alexander Blok, tr. by Joffrey Thurley, from “Three Messages,” c. 1919

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[xshayarsha]

The day unfurling, but very gradually, a solitude not to be feared, the changes faint, barely perceived—

Louise Glück, from The Seven Ages; The Muse of Happiness. (via xshayarsha)

[phfantasists]

Marco Bozzato by Sofia Goncharenko – Haze Magazine (Winter 2020)

[shisasan]

𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟻, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, tr. Anne Carson

[ID: for when I look at you, even a moment, no speaking is left in me]

[wishbzne-deactivated20210526]

plainwater: essays and poetry — the interviews (III), anne carson

[profoundgaiety-deactivated20200]

From Cosmopolitan (1916)

[galeru]

Detail of Baigneuse accroupie, by William Adolphe Bouguereau. 

ca.1884

[gunandcoffee-deactivated2022012]

[soracities]

“I’ll touch you—a new world then.” (William Stafford)

L’Eclisse (1962)  |  L’Avventura (1960)  |  Kaze no naka no mendori (1948)

[soracities]

“Hands can remember too.”

— Christa Wolf, tr. by John Cullen, from “Medea,” originally published c. 1996 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[keatsgay-deactivated20200126]

‘on a dream’ by john keats