leah

we are pressed flowers in heavy books too close to the story to see it is only a story.

[the-mermaidhouse]

Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2014

[fyhautecouture]

Jonathan Simkhai

[kharites-deactivated20190316]

When heading to the beach this summer, remember that Aphrodite encourages you to love yourself when you’re visiting her sacred birth place. Do not feel ashamed of your body, it mirrors the gods.

[leflambeur]

[menburnstars]

By Leslie Zhang for Le Fame

[pinkprinks]

’’Cleopatra died more than 2,000 years ago, at the age of 39. Before she was a slot machine, a video game, a cigarette, a condom, a caricature, a cliché or a synonym for Elizabeth Taylor, before she was reincarnated by Shakespeare, Dryden or Shaw, she was a nonfictional Egyptian queen. She ruled for 21 years, mostly alone, which is to say that she was essentially a female king, an incongruity that elicits the kind of double take once reserved for men in drag.

From her point of view there was nothing irregular about the arrangement. Cleopatra arguably had more powerful female role models than any other woman in history. They were not so much paragons of virtue as shrewd political operators. Her antecedents were the rancorous, meddlesome Macedonian queens who routinely poisoned brothers and sent armies against sons. Cleopatra’s great-grandmother waged one civil war against her parents, another against her children. These women were raised to rule’’ – Stacy Schiff, New York Times 

[the-book-diaries]

“I am too full of life to be half-loved.”

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada

[coral]

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

Louis Adamic (via coral)

[cuncinnity]

Uruk, Iraq 

[danaewunderkammer-deactivated20]

Wilhelm Gallhof, The Coral Necklace, 1917

[wellconstructedsentences]

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver (via cats2019starringtaylorswift)

[wehadfacesthen]

Singer Abbe Lane,“the swingingest sexpot in show business,” outside Ciro’s nightclub in Hollywood where she was appearing with Xavier Cugat’s band, 1954

[jazbaaati]

“And perhaps something good has been sprouting in the small numb darkness all this while.”

- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.

[chaosophia218]

Jean Baudoin - Recveil D'Emblemes Divers, 1638.

[poecilotheria]

[clawmarks]

Jacob Christian Gottlieb von Schäffer - Fvngorvm Qvi In Bavaria Et Palatinatv Circa Ratisbonam Nascvntvr Icones Nativis Coloribvs Expressae - 1762 - via BSB 

[mitten]

[empressofdreams]