forget me not

Saint Michael the Archangel by Francesco Cozza, 1650

Sylvia Plath, “Elm.”

the thing is, ellen bass / for example, mary oliver 

— hermann hesse

when the ghosts come ashore: things i should say to myself in the mirror or things i would say to the city of st. louis if it could hear me, jacqui germain

Dead Poets Society (1989)  dir. Peter Weir

Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.   atonement (2007) dir. joe wright

Mist in the early morning, the Netherlands [5053 x 3369] [OC] - Author: Aurorain on reddit

Michael Cunningham, from “The Hours,” originally published c. 1998

in greek mythology, cyparissus was a handsome youth of the island of ceos, who was loved by the god apollo. he died of grief after accidentally killing his beloved pet stag and was transformed into a cypress tree.

Anton Chekhov, from a diary entry featured in “The Notebook of Anton Chekhov,”

“I’m flesh and blood Clive, if you’ll condescend to such low things.” Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory 

Saint Ignatius and Saint Francis Borgia  beholding an eucharistic allegory (Detail), 1674. By Juan de Valdés Leal

Roses, c. 1890. Abbott Handerson Thayer

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes

“This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me” ― Emily Dickinson

f. scott fitzgerald / friedrich nietzsche / florence and the machine / andrea dworkin / kiersten white / euripides / audre lorde / phillip pullmann / bob hicok

dave malloy, “no one else”

Hugh Grant in Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory