#romantic progressive

[elisaenglish]

“What is art, But life upon the larger scale, the higher, When, graduating up in a spiral line Of still expanding and ascending gyres, It pushes toward the intense significance Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?”

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh-

And what is love – this, ours, forever – if not the same? For what is anything, if not love?

[elisaenglish]

The Art of Us

“What is a work of art if not the gaze of another person?”

-Karl Ove Knausgaard, Completely Without Dignity: An Interview-

To see through each other's eyes and wonder, to feel the light and fire, the thunder, burst right from your blood. Those moments when you slip inside, as truth unwinds, your thoughts meet mine; and that might be the pinnacle – the definition, heart and miracle, of that which we call love.

[elisaenglish]

Glorious equilibrium...

[elisaenglish]

I am complex, I am fragile, and I deserve rare things...

[elisaenglish]

“Read it as you will. To know her is to be attuned to her precise degree of explicit. I have it on good authority that she wouldn't have you any other way... P.S. You don't have to be a man in this scenario. ‘Invariably’ can always be negotiated...”

[elisaenglish]

“And to have them mean as much as his; maybe leave their mark on history...”

[elisaenglish]

“The heroine reigns in this one...”

[elisaenglish]

“All that matters is where the heart leads. It's not about heteronormative or scriptural values. There is no right way to love...”