It’s not just okay to be sensitive. It’s beautiful to be sensitive. It’s beautiful to be aware and feel deeply. It’s beautiful to love with all your heart and be giving.
“In August my heart was aflame,”
— Adela Florence Nicolson, from “When Love Is Over Song of Khan Zada,”
Being kissed softly!!!!! fingers gently tracing your skin!!! Your hair being tucked behind ur ear!!!!!!! The little thumb rub thing when u hold hands!!!!!
“I will grow, I know, I know, I know.”
— Forough Farrokhzad, from Sin: The Selected Poems of. F. F.; “Rebirth,”
the fact that i’m not on a balcony in italy watching the sun set eating fresh fruit with my lover is offensive
every day i eat bread and think about women to stay alive, this is known as maintaining homostasis
Cimitero di Sant'Anna, Trieste.
Detail from Allegory of Painting by François Boucher.
Ok but being in bed just feels SO GOOD
Details of Atalanta by John William Godward (1861-1922, British). By artgarments
we as a society should go back to playing neko atsume
“She’s always trying to make something whole, something beautiful,”
— Louise Glück, from The Complete Poems: 1962-2012; “Celestial Music” (via thistlewytch)
Olivier Saillard, creative director of Palais Galliera museum in Paris, curated an extraordinary dialogue between arts and fashion. The Madame Grès exhibition at the Musée Bourdelle dates from 2011.
Image: Pierre Antoine
What I’d give to work in a little tearoom/bookstore with a resident cat that basks in the sunshine on the windowsill