violae de diana

diana. i'm a sapphic idiot with an intense love for shakespeare, classics, literature and historical fashion; a lover of dark academia and old art.

[violae-de-diana]

okay so I know that at this point we’ve all seen that “il ne comprend pas le latin" is “he isn’t gay”, right? I now ask you all to recall Francis and Richard’s iconic first meeting.

[i-like-cherry-3-1415-deactivate]

I cannot stress how important it is to be a little bit mad. I don’t mean angry. I mean strange. Weird. Bizarre. I mean that creative, passionate, wild thing romantics call madness. That thing that stirs the poet’s soul, or gives inspiration to the musician. Madness is the fuel that drives the mind of the mathematician as they discover equations that govern the universe, or the philosophers as they question their own existence. Madness is what gives activists their strength. Madness is the oppressed demanding freedom in the face of their oppressors. Madness is doing what is right despite the darkness surrounding you. Madness is daring. Madness is love. Madness is human. I’m not saying you shouldn’t fear it. One should fear madness as one fears God. After all, it is holy.    

[aseaofquotes]

[niktipolos]

Big Sur, Jack Kerouac.

[darkacademiclady]

Dark Academia in Film│Dead Poets Society (1989), Kill Your Darlings (201…

[darkacademaniac]

this felt like a really GOOD, really REAL trailer (like a really good one; one that doesn’t put the entire movie plot in it, and it makes you so excited to see the movie you’re counting the days until it is released in cinemas)

[klassizismus]

Portrait of Wincenty Rapacki as Hamlet (1870) by Karol Miller (Polish, 1835-1920)

[loumargi]

Giorgio Dante, born in 1982, is an Italian figurative painter who currently lives and works in Rome, Italy.

[twostarsinonesphere]

1914 - education in england - c.s. lewis

but homer came first. day after day and month after month we drove gloriously onward, tearing the whole achilleid out of the illiad and tossing the rest on one side, and then reading the odyssey entire, till the music of the thing and the clear, bitter brightness that lives in almost every formula had become part of me.

for @willgrahamswillgraham

[violae-de-diana]

is anyone else’s dream apartment just clive durham’s dorm room or is that just me

[ghostresidues]

dark academia people flirting: you can borrow my tweed jacket if you want

[violae-de-diana]

i once handed a girl i liked the secret history and told her she could add to my annotations so if that really doesn’t sum us up, i don’t know what does 

[dachkna]

Vassar College girls practicing Greek dance c. 1923

[barcarole]

Dostoyevsky’s notebook from 1870-1871. Sketches for Demons. Russian State Library, Moscow.

[macrolit]

We were always surrounded by books and words and poetry, all the fierce passions of the world bound in leather and vellum.

If We Were Villains, M. L. Rio (via macrolit)

[dallowaydiaries]

The Brontë Parsonage, Haworth

[leave-me-colourless]

[atake-eternal]

[didoofcarthage]

Sketch of Apollo’s head for Classic and Romantic Art by John Singer Sargent 

American, 1917-1921

charcoal on paper

MFA Boston

[fourthepigram]

To live in the present dying world; we are just children thrown into something that we’re not.

IG: fourthepigram