Donna Tartt from The Secret History
Who else just fucking loves the color green
you, who opened suns in my heart,
I recognize no dichotomy between art and protest.
Ralph Ellison, interviewed in The Art of Fiction No. 8 (via theclassicsreader)
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.
-John Keating; Dead Poets Society
It is so cruel that we think we’re wasting time when we’re doing something that we love and that does not have any materialistic returns
the gallery of great battles; versailles, paris
the poet and his muse.
dedicated to my lovely dorian.
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
-Friedrich Nietzsche