[seaphine]

[yourqueenmab]

"All too violently my heart still flows toward you—my heart, upon which my summer burns, short, hot, melancholy, overblissful; how my summer heart yearns for your coolness!"

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche

[pimby]

brought a kiss to the knife fight

[shisasan]

Charles Baudelaire, Evil Fate The Flowers of Evil, tr. William Ageler Originally published 1857

[vexheart]

[shisasan]

“Something in her was violently sensual, alive, earthy…”

— 𝙰𝚗𝚊𝚒̈𝚜 𝙽𝚒𝚗 , 𝙳𝚎𝚕𝚝𝚊 𝚘𝚏 𝚅𝚎𝚗𝚞𝚜 - 𝙴𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚊 (𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟽)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“When I kissed her I was so full of desire between one kiss and another that I felt I would lose her if we stopped kissing.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Ibrahim Muhawi, from “Journal of an Ordinary Grief,”

[banksalec]

[geryone]

Night Poem, Leila Chatti

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

[weltenwellen]

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— v, excerpts from a book i’ll never write #2 (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[poetryandimages-blog-blog]

Photograph by Paulo Nozolino

[shisasan]

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra originally published 1873

[nixscriptum]

[becherdireinen]

[metamorphesque]

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Vladimir Nabokov

[goldours]

agathe marty