13th Dec 2015✧08:4798,495 notes

"I feel the weight of stars…"

~   Theodore Roethke, from “A Nest of Light” in Straw for the Fire (via oiseauperdu)

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scarborough-fayre: “ René-Jacques - Royan, Charente - Maritime, ca. 1927 ”
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scarborough-fayre: “ Katalin Baricz ”
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dialnfornoir: “ “The Uninvited (1944) ” ”
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the quality of degradation 

sublime erosion

gentle emulsion

I’m still wearing thin 

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"If she let herself, she’d stare at the sky all day."

~   Mary Szybist, from Incarnadine: Poems
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"We can’t hate ourselves into a version of ourselves we can love."

~   Lori Deschene  (via yeshecholwa)

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"I am myself. That is not enough."

~   Sylvia Plath - from The Jailer (via watchoutforintellect)
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funeral-wreaths: “ Frederic Lord Leighton, Summer Slumber, 1894 ”
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sotlylaisse: “‘Event’ (1975) by Sigurdur Gudmundsson ”
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"…How odd, I sometimes feel that a “shadow-self” has taken me over. A superficial though charming—I suppose charming!—“social” personality. But the deeper person, the spirit, the psyche, remains stubbornly hidden."

~   Joyce Carol Oates, from a diary entry (via fleurstains)

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