Stinging Insects + Arms In Songs About Love.. Hmmm

stinging insects + arms in songs about love….. hmmm

u ever wish u could be a medieval monk and just illuminate a manuscript….like i feel like all of my worldly troubles would be solved if i could copy the aeneid by hand and then draw a knight fighting a snail in the margins

And there were all those poems about women, written by men: it seemed to be a given that men wrote poems and women frequently inhabited them. These women were almost always beautiful, but threatened with the loss of beauty, the loss of youth the fate worse than death. Or, they were beautiful and died young, like Lucy and Lenore. Or, the woman was like Maud Gonne, cruel and disastrously mistaken, and the poem reproached her because she had refused to become a luxury for the poet.

Adrienne Rich, When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision, 1972. (via megairea)

shout out to water for keeping my throat sufficiently lubricated for optimal yodeling techniques