“the smell of rain and wet trees — the smell of the last days of November.”
— Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years (trans. Philip Ó Ceallaigh)

“the smell of rain and wet trees — the smell of the last days of November.”
— Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years (trans. Philip Ó Ceallaigh)
florida on film
Lana del Rey and The Last Shadow Puppets - Thunder (unreleased song from 2017)
— Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls
“I want to melt inside moonlight,”
— Lu Yun, from tr. by Burton Watson, “For Ku Yen-hsien, A Poem for Him to Give to his Wife,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
“Here am I shedding one of my life-skins (…)”
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Virginia Woolf, from ‘The Waves’
“ your belly the sun, sun in the water, sun-water in the earthen jar, sunflower seed I planted in my chest….”
— Octavio Paz, from ‘A Tale of Two Gardens’, A Tale of Two Gardens
“Honeysuckle, pink and creamy, Like thy honeyed hair and lashes, Like thy skin and lashes dreamy, Coral amber bloom that flashes;”
— Marc-André Raffalovich, excerpt from “Magic Hair” from Tuberose and Meadowseet (via sun-virgin)
A shot of just a tiny bit of the Andromeda Galaxy, from the sharpest ever view taken by the Hubble Space Telescope