‎الحمد لله

[minqalbi]

الرغبة في رؤية شخص في الجنة، في رأيي، هذا الحب

The desire to see a person in paradise, in my opinion, is love.

[mournfulroses]

Yosa Buson, from a tanka featured in From the country of Eight Islands; an anthology of Japanese Poetry

[michaelblick-deactivated-deacti]

She’ll submit naturally if you lead properly.

[emptiness-statue]

[lxsolo]

[vampressart]

[rabbitinthemoon-blog]

“I thought I breathed the perfume in your blood.”

— Charles Baudelaire

[namedvesta]

Daniele Accossato, wrapped nº𝟧 (jesmonite, wire, wood), 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟤

[oldjewelryfeed]

Vintage 14K 585 Yellow Gold A Token Of Love Angel Cupid Pendant

[dreamyvixen]

“My dear dark dove,”

— Rosanna Warren, from Earthwork: Selected Poems; “Intimate Letters,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[majestativa]

You suit my most intimate of tastes.

— Charles Baudelaire, The Language of Silent Things: Selections from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs Du Mal, transl by Patrick Barnard, (1983)

[warmvoices]

[morsaclizombi]

[perfectquote]

“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous person, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the person in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.”

— Henry Miller

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Look at you. No longer resisting; unfolding / with ease; revealing scars / from wounds that were slow to heal. / The body remembers. You never won / but dearly battled. / You bloom in this forest of white.”

— Mary Jo Bang, from Apology for Want: Poems; “Autopsy”

[wolfgangfonso]

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.”

— Ovid, Metamorphoses  

[philosophybits]

“I was too enamored of truth ever to mourn lost illusions.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life