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MARY OLIVER

Thirst (2006);

original photos and edit

I was thinking about you. Were you thinking about me too?

There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious. // The Secret History, Donna Tartt

rainy day in paris // 2019

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

-Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

a study of the moon

𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘭𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘺

Charles Macaulay

The secret history

Oxford, Oxfordshire.

“I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Not yet corpses.

Still, we rot.

“There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.” Guy Finley

oliasaunders.art

I wish I could visit buildings/museums like these :)

the poet and his muse.

dedicated to my lovely dorian.

remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.

gaza is under attack right now in the middle of the night please don’t let palestinians suffer in silence please stay updated please stay aware. people are trying to trend #GazaUnderAttack on twitter

"The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all."

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."

-Michel de Montaigne

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

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” — Paul Cézanne

"Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not grown."

-Erich Fromm; To Have or to Be?

"We long for the lost"

-november-rage

"It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it."

The greatest pleasure of life is sensation,

To feel that we exist,

Even in pain.

-Lord Byron