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Li-Young Lee, from “The Hour and What Is Dead”, The City In Which I Love You
Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey
Wandering down a side aisle, I was pursued by a distraught Ophelia, who clutched my sleeve with a cry of “My lord” and, addressing me as if I were Polonius, described Hamlet’s unnerving entry into her chamber. I had to resist the temptation to respond: “Go with me, I will go seek the king.” Later, I was confronted by an Othello who knelt before me as if I were the Duke of Venice and cried: “Most potent, grave and reverend signior”: not the kind of thing I’m used to hearing.
Sky details in Ivan Aivazovsky’s paintings
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When did we all stop believing in magic? Why did we put all our hopes in a box in the attic? I'm the long-shot I'm the Hail Mary Why can't it be me?
Just found out sleeping does not erase all my problems. Shocked and upset
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
—Robert Frost, 1920
This is no Westeros. On April 8, 2019, the Landsat 8 satellite acquired a scene of contrasts in Russia: a fire surrounded by ice.
Between chunks of frozen land and lakes in the Magadan Oblast district of Siberia, a fire burned and billowed smoke plumes that were visible from space.
Not much is known about the cause of the fire, east of the town of Evensk. Forest fires are common in this heavily forested region, and the season usually starts in April or May. Farmers also burn old crops to clear fields and replenish the soil with nutrients, also known as ‘slash and burn agriculture’; such fires occasionally burn out of control. Land cover maps, however, show that this fire region is mainly comprised of shrublands, not croplands.
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“’Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.’ ‘I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.’” -Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre “I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.” -Emily Brontë I love the Brontë sisters. This is probably one of the most marked-up, underlined, highlighted books that I own. I am always finding passages that pierce through me, gripping me with the perfect expression of thoughts and feelings I have felt deeply but never been able to unfetter with words.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League
The main reading room of the Czech National Library is probably one of my favourite places in the world ♡
archive moodboard for @vivalcli
“it is only a bruise”
— Leo Tolstoy
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir, DoP John Seale
Venezia
“Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I’ve heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose—lest we die, unbloomed .” - Kill your darlings
Capriccio of the Rialto Bridge with the Lagoon Beyond, 1746, Canaletto
Medium: oil,canvas
23.12.19 Manchester
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” - Oscar Wilde
Elaine Feinstein, from Collected Poems and Translations; “Muse for E. T.,”
Some lovely shells i’ve gathered at one of the beach in Bali
ig: fourthepigram
‘clair de lune’ by debussy but you’re wandering down the halls of your wealthy reclusive uncle’s grand and empty mansion trying to find who’s playing the piano because you haven’t seen another soul for weeks except your reflection in the mirror
I wish I was special. You're so fuckin' special.