i know not what i ask

learning where i fit, one day at a time.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Go to that temple, my dear, and bring flowers, honey, and song.

Hermann Hesse, from The Complete Fairy Tales; “Strange News From Another Planet,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[lifeinpoetry]

“I have learned to be a hidden thing you cannot break.”

— Elizabeth Lyons, from “Escape Is in Your Genes,” The Blessing of Dark Water

[cparrisart]

Saint George

If you can hardly see it, then you are viewing it correctly. >:}

[tentacles-and-stardust]

“Whatever our souls are made of, her and mine are the same”

— Emily Bronte (via fate)

[evermore-fashion]

Georges Hobeika Fall 2018 Ready-to-Wear Collection

[fallingforleavesandpumpkins]

[seatrench]

Victoria cruziana

(source)

[katfe-commissionsopen]

Day 18: The Shadow

[letheane-deactivated20200121]

“How can I teach her some way of being human that won’t destroy her?”

— Margaret Atwood, from Solstice Poem in “Selected Poems II: 1976-1986″ (via adrasteiax)

[letlovemeetlove]

My mind still takes pleasure in wandering and distracting itself with perishable things. Even so, when I finally return into my heart after some hours, days, or even entire weeks, I still find you there. I cannot complain that you have left me even for a moment…

St. Gertrude the Great (whose feast we celebrate today)

[flagellant]

[brotticelli]

“we were promised salvation, and all that’s left is neon prophecies and back alley hymns.”

— ON FINDING GOD AT THE END OF THE WORLD (pt i, insp x) | m.c.p

[lifeinpoetry]

There is a faraway storm. There is a humming between my teeth. I let them sing dangerously against your neck.

— Michelle Lin, from “I Have Lain in the Dirt and Known this Bed,” published in The Wanderer

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I held you in my embrace warm and gleaming, my complete grief.

Maria Polydouri, tr. by Manolis Aligizakis, from “Pride,” written c. 1927 (via violet-amber)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I feel you, phantom touch, although you’re far.

Chelsea Wolfe, from Hisspun; “Twin Fawn,” released c. September 2017 (via violet-amber)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

The people we truly love either leave or die.

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from “Rien ne va Plus,” (via violet-amber)

[voguedolce]

Jean Paul Gaultier SS07