A BOLD KNIGHT

inspiration sideblog to @fairysland.

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I feel, therefore I can be free.

Audre Lorde, from “Zami: A New Spelling of my Name,” published c. 1982 (via writemeanna)

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My hair clustered with flowers was like a box of sweet perfume;

Ambapali, A. L. Bashham, from “My Body Was Lovely As Polished Gold,” (via writemeanna)

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Sunset at Millennium Green in North Hykeham.

[filmaticbby]

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987) dir. Éric Rohmer

[biodiverseed]

Appearing like trenches dragged into the earth, sunken lanes, also called hollow-ways or holloways, are centuries-old thoroughfares worn down by the traffic of time. They’re one of the few examples of human-made infrastructure still serving its original purpose, although many who walk through holloways don’t realize they’re retracing ancient steps.

- Allison Meier in Atlas Abscura

[indie-library]

Visit Original Link

[mckennasplaylist]

King And Lionheart | Of Monsters And Men

[kxowledge]

Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

[2ndhome]

Moving back to uni tomorrow… here’s a “farewell to summer” post from my trip to Shenandoah National Park! 🍃

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She survived whatever happened; she forgave; she became.

W.H. Auden, The Model  (via kvtes)

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[latenights]

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Anne Carson, from Plainwater-Essays and Poetry

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Biche craintive | La Belle et la Bête

[lifeinpoetry]

“My heart’s a doe’s. A doe’s made for running away.”

— Fady Joudah, from “Horses,” Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance

[lifeinpoetry]

I pronounce my heart                                                            an open wound that disobeys

— S. K. Grout, from “Corvus,” to be female is to be interrogated

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“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”

— Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928 (via fontanalib)

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