personal moodboard for @partialto
“In your eyes you dearly hold all of night’s allure / Oh you, Joy at the end of my solitude! / Your kisses as sweet as the sweetest fruits / And your voice lulling me like a dreamy prelude / Softly sung by the sea for night’s beauty in bloom.” — Renée Vivien
“Everyday I come to the same place and wait until the sun catches up with my mood.”
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
hate it here (realm of consciousness) going back to sleep
every day i wonder why i'm not living in a dark castle with secret passageways and rooms filled with books
"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."
-Francis Scott Fitzgerald
A narrow oak staircase shielded by a door, heavy brace beams a nice old brick floor, and a mixture of painted brick and boarding on the walls are all typical ingredients of an old cottage hallway.
English Country Style, 1986
Dostoevsky’s drawings and calligraphy on his manuscripts.
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
chaotic academia is [writes on hand] [ink on ankles] [ink on elbows] [ink on neck] [urge to buy white flowy dresses] [writing unfinished poems] [making a big deal of birthdays] [writing prose and poetry for friends] [forgetting mundane schoolwork] [researching something niche] [reading old queer love letters] [editing a friend's book] [wishing for love] [shouting into the void silently] [reading incessantly]