φιλτατος

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Sylvia Plath, from “Parliament Hill Fields”

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— David Foster Wallace

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— wolkenleere, excerpt of a book I’ll never write

[remanence-of-love]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”

— Elizabeth Berg

[darjunaearth]

there is so so much liberation in letting go though.

[quotefeeling]

“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.”

— Louise Erdrich

[aashufta-sar]

دے رہے ہیں لوگ میرے دل پہ دستک بار بار، دل مگر یہ کہہ رہا ہے صرف تو اور صرف تو

De rahe hain log mere dil pe dastak bar bar, dil magar yeh keh raha hai sirf Tu aur sirf Tu

— Fariha Naqvi فریحہ نقوی

[metamorphesque]

Walking with the Wind, Abbas Kiarostami (translated by Michael Beard)

[thoughtkick]

“We just got to accept that some people can only be in our hearts, not in our lives.”

— Kathy B.

[metamorphesque]

musings on the sun

christina perneta, noor hindi, vincent van gogh, jeanette winterson, zinaida vysota docenko, anne sexton, olga kos, khalil gibran

[thepersonalquotes]

[thoughtkick]

“I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart.”

— Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

[yinnezhasgf]

i think i’ve seen this film before [apollo and hyacinthus, dionysus and ampelos, heracles and hylas, achilles and patroclus, alexander and hephaestion, hadrian and antinous] and i didn’t like the ending

[kuutamosonaatti]

Caravaggio (1986) | dir. Derek Jarman

[sapphopilled]

the masculine urge to study in vermont, hold a bacchanal, turn to a deer and see god, accidentally kill a man, proceed to kill ur friend to keep his mouth shut, spiral into madness, and maintain a homoerotic relationship with all ur classmates

[paganimagevault]

Silenus with the child Dionysos 2nd c. CE (after a 4th C. BCE original by Lysippos)

"He [Dionysos] was accompanied . . . by a personal attendant and caretaker, Seilenos (Silenus), who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."

-Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 4. 3 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.)

https://paganimagevault.blogspot.com/2019/11/silenus-with-child-dionysos-2nd-c-ce.html

[facinaoris]

Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod, Traci Brimhall