JOHN KEATS. Â Â Â the lavender in sunsets, Â flowers in the rain, Â sunlight slipping through clouds, Â lazy summer afternoons, Â the heavy scent of musk, flickering candlelight reflecting off the gold titles of books, Â fireflies on a cool summer night, Â being wrapped in fresh bedsheets, the ache of wanting what you can never have, Â dripping sunlight like gold, Â loving someone so exquisite, Â soft lips and soft whispers, Â fingers through hair, Â names of lovers carved in trees, broken glass, the insistence of being perpetually dreamy
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. Â Â mahogany wood, Â crisp winter skies with cold bright stars, Â the solitude of an early autumn morning wrapped in fog, Â empty bottles on stacks and stacks of books haphazardly placed in a messy room, pale bruised arms reaching out into the darkness, Â cigarette smoke just barely hiding the scent of alcohol, Â a wall of books all poetry and old and weathered, Â a bad thunderstorm occurring at the end of a beautiful day, Â the way tragedy strikes in your heart but ends up stopping your breathing for a moment, Â your favourite sweater, Â parties spilling into four a.m. with the stars above spinning and dancing, the contrast of blood against snow, Â a purple split lip oozing blood, Â black eyes fading to blue to pale skin, Â the butterflies of falling in love for the first time, Â the statues falling apart over time in cemeteries, Â the romanticization of self-destruction
FRANZ KAFKA. Â Â Â the weight of dread that sits heavily in your stomach when thinking about the future, Â decrepit houses cloaked in mystery from children telling stories of people who died there, Â the way not even light can escape a black hole, the rich smell of old books, delicate veins in the wrist, Â ghosts filling lungs, Â shattered bones, Â raindrops on the tongue, Â rusting metal, Â nostalgia that aches, Â the way hope feels like a plastic bag over your head
H.P. LOVECRAFT. Â Â the anxiety felt when staring into an unknown cave, pouring rain and mud, a childâs fear of the dark, Â thinking so many questions about your existence as you stare at the vast expanse of never ending ocean, Â the silence of three a.m., Â danse macabre by camille saint-saens playing on a record in an empty house, Â the possibility of aliens and the weird feeling it gives you that you canât explain, Â unexplainable phenomena, Â strange lights in the sky in the dead of night, Â ouija boards and urban legends
JACK KEROUAC. Â Â the brisk pine air of being on a mountain, Â travels without a destination, those nights where youâre missing three hours of memory, Â screaming to a lifeless desert about how youâre so alive, coffee shops late at night, Â car rides at night spent speeding and laughing in the dark, Â naps spent in the sun, Â novels highlighted and underlined with notes and epiphanies in the margins, Â the way uncertainty sits on the shoulders, Â ignoring flaws and loving life, Â wind through hair, Â depression as fog in the brain, Â impossible ideals, Â a quiet sunrise, Â walks alone, Â when you think about trying to discover all the secrets to the universe, Â dazzling people, Â open lands stretching out into infinity, Â falling in love with being alive
EDGAR ALLAN POE. Â Â Â the oceanâs horizon inseparable from fog, Â hollow bones, Â a preserved heart held in hands, Â twinkling stars above an old graveyard, Â the way everything turns to dust, Â silent black birds with eyes full of wisdom, Â self-inflicted flames, perfection depicted as a rotting corpse, death as bricks in the heart, Â lips barely brushing against each other, Â glassy glazed eyes, Â biting into a lemon, Â heart-shaped bruises, rotting flowers on a grave, dried blood and spilled liquor, the hush of dusk when it begins raining, Â the intimacy of a secret
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