Bear Patiently,

[propertiesofjoy]

james baldwin, just above my head

[hckat]

Empress Elisabeth of Austria by Franz Schrotzberg (details) 

[bilvy]

you guys have to be nice to me because nobody has ever told me i’ve bewitched them body and soul

[wehadfacesthen]

[theniftyfifties]

Eartha Kitt backstage, 1959.

[rbhvleo]

instagram

[metamorphesque]

— Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors, Richard Siken

[text ID: To make something / beautiful should be enough. It isn’t. It should be.]

[typewriter-worries]

journal entry - 8.17.22 

“what is something that is always true?” 

[slowlikehoney1996]

fr

[obsob]

a love so nice its echoed in dreams!!

[metamorphesque]

― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

[geryone]

Pine to Sound, Nancy Kuhl

[firstfullmoon]

““I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.”

— Anne Sexton, in a letter to W.D. Snodgrass (November 28, 1958)

[ijaazat]

everything is so so significant to me how am i supposed to live

[softhe4rted]

the thing is by Ellen Bass

[orpheuslament]

A Savage Garden, Dante Émile. From WELL-LOVED BLOOD.

[orpheuslament]

[text ID: This forceful metamorphosis we must endure will turn sweet in your hands. / Miraculous changeling, I’d like to trap every movement of your mouth in amber. /end ID]

[vivienvalentino]

My Place: Florence Welch

[luthienne]

Lisel Mueller, from Alive Together: New and Selected Poems; "Heartland"

[Text ID: We want to hear someone say, / "I give you my heart," meaning, / "summer and winter," meaning, / "all my time in this world,"]