surrounded by impossibility I listen to you
| — | Jacqueline Risset, from “Of Bacchus and Ariadne,”
Elles: A Bilingual Anthology of Modern French Poetry by Women
(University of Exeter Press, 1995)
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Classifications of Fairies | The Unseelie Court
☽ ★ moodboard: misc vintage astronomy illustrations ★ ☽
oh, take a silver dagger and oh so sweetly
slip it between my ribs.
caress my sinking rising lungs with
a sharp still point
nick out a pattern of foolish longing on my
red beating heart
sink it to the hilt in my
soft trembling love.
| — | crown-of-crows, rending |
In Greek mythology, the Moirai or Moerae /ˈmɪrˌiː/ or /ˈmiːˌriː/ (Ancient Greek: Μοῖραι, “apportioners”), often known in English as the Fates (Latin: Fatae), were the white-robed incarnations of destiny; Their number became fixed at three: Klotho, Lachesis and Atropos.
- winston churchill addressing the house of commons, june 4, 1940
drain and set aside / the soul of the girl in you / and then say: beware.
| — | astagesetforcatastrophe, from “cauldron” (via astagesetforcatastrophe) |