#alfreddouglas

idk if it’s just me but Oscar Wilde is such an inspiration. I often image myself talking to him bout beauty, life, poetry and champagne or reading his own sonnets to the moon

he helped me A LOT  I wanna thank him so much

so guys let’s recreate the aesthetic movement

all of u can join <3

“Death and love seem to walk on either hand as I go through life--They are the only things I think of -- Their wings shadow me.” 

This is a quote from Oscar Wilde in one of his letters to his long-time friend and lover, Alfred “Bosie” Douglas.  While the letters in this collection are facsimiles (replicas of the originals), they do provide an insight into the tumultuous relationship between these two men.  

Alfred and Oscar certainly had a tumultuous relationship involving affairs, disapproving fathers, trials, and imprisonment, but it ended on a 50,000 word letter from Wilde, written during his time in prison, forgiving Douglas for everything that had transpired between them.   

-Kelly 

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