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it's spring but i'm still sad

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One day my dreams will become reality, but for now I'll keep on dreaming.

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Ode to Lord Byron.

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Byzantine teardrop pendant of blue glass in a gold bezel, dated to the 5th to 8th centuries CE. The gold chain is likely modern. Source: Timeline Auctions.

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Not sure how universal this experience is, but Tolkien’s concept of sea-longing resonated with me because I grew up in a coastal town and every time I have to live for an extended period of time away from the coast, I get this almost claustrophobic feeling that only goes away when I return to the seashore

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Adonis, Selected Poems; “Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

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Why nowadays books can't be like THAT?

#writing #poetry #dark academia #langblr #books and libraries #bookstagram #ancient books #light acadamia aesthetic #fairytalecore #fairy tales #dark academism

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the weather is finally getting colder and the serenity that is slowly settling in seems almost too good to be true—it makes my heart sing. autumn sunlight is one of my favourite things in the world.

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Playful kittens near a fire place by Henriette Ronner-Knip.

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I think poetry consists of the words we were never brave enough to say and the emotions we could never describe.

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Statues

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It seems all I am capable of is yearning for what I never had

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— Oscar Wilde 

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Emily Dickinson // Virginia Woolf

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my italian professor is soo sweet! when she does something wrong she makes THAT cute face and says: "o dio!"

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Today’s friends in the future may be strangers and some strangers may be your great friends.