— Bright Star (via purpleboxofhappiness)
(Quelle: justdontevencare)
— Bright Star (via purpleboxofhappiness)
(Quelle: justdontevencare)
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
“A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving into a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore but to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out, it is a experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept the mystery.”
She had long before this taken old Rome into her confidence, for in the world of ruins the ruin of her happiness seemed a less natural catastrophe.
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
(Quelle: thebarnothing)
“And remember this,” he continued, “that if you have been hated, you have also been loved.”
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
John Keats
(Quelle: rulesofmaybe)

Mark Bradshaw feat. Abbie Cornish - Bright Star (by John Keats)