Ted Hughes, describing his wife Sylvia Plath in Birthday Letters

Anton Chekhov, Verochka

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

sandy liang locket mirror ring

audrey hepburn test shots for war and peace (1956) ♡

Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems

— Anton Chekhov, from The Plays of Anton Chekhov

— Marie Antoinette, 1793

— Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman; “Jumping Off Roofs” (via luthienne)

Alexander Hamilton in a letter to Elizabeth Schuyler, October 1780

Bram Stoker, Dracula

Diana Adams of the New York City Ballet in a photo by George Platt Lynes, 1951

Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

— Edith Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle (1907)

— Anne Boleyn makes her entrance in Henry VIII (Act I, Scene IV)

— Delmira Agustini, from The White Book (1907); “Intimate Delicacy,”

— Anaïs Nin, from a letter quoted in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume IV (1944-1947)