golden afternoon

Lake Thun, view to the west (W), 7/1909

Mary Oliver, Worm Moon

Taylor Byas, from I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems; “To the city I wish to get to know”

— Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath vol 1: 1940-1956

— Hawthorne, American Note-Books, 1838 (via lucybiederman)

via @quotemadness

— Amy Lowell, from “The Cremona Violin,” written c. September 1919

— Adrienne Rich, from Poems; “The Burning of Paper Instead of Children,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

— Richard Siken, from Planet Of Love in “Crush” (via adrasteiax)

Coucher de soleil sur la Méditerranée, c.1931

— St. Hildegard of Bingen (via eternal-echoes)

by Роман Микрюков

Ono no Komachi & Izumi Shikibu, tr. by Jane Hirshfield & Mariko Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

— Maurice Maeterlinck, from Complete Poems & Plays; “Princess Maleine,” (via violentwavesofemotion)