Halcyone by Herbert James Draper (1915)
Victorian Tear Catchers
During the Victorian era, mourners sometimes collected their tears in gold decorated “tear bottles” to keep as a remembrance for the next of kin. It has also been said that the widows would go to the grave on the anniversary of the first year of death and sprinkle the tears on the grave to signify the end of the first year of mourning.
“You have to be some level of delusional to be happy” I say to him. “To sit there and see the world for exactly what it is? Only a madman wouldn’t go mad”
-𝘢𝘺𝘢 //𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦
Why must I have obligations? Why can't I just spend the day being cute and reading books?
“I met the wolf alone and was devoured in peace.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from The Collected Poems; “True Encounter,” (via smoketree)
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
– Vincent Van Gogh