Lightning bugs! <3
“I have become total devotion with desire.”— Forough Farrokhzad, from Sin: The Selected Poems of. F. F.; “Love Song,”
“It’s a dark pain, this urge of wanting;”— Forough Farrokhzad, from Sin: The Selected Poems of. F. F.; “Love Song,”
“The anger flowed like a river and the water tasted like your love,”— Chelsea Wolfe, from Abyss; “Flame,” released c. August 2015
Lucha Corpi, tr. by Catherine Rodriguez-Nieto, “The Dark Romance of your Lips,”
who hasn’t fantasized about illuminating manuscripts by candlelight in a medieval scriptorium tbh
“I love to think of you naked. I put your naked body between myself alone and death.”— Kenneth Rexroth, from Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems; “Between Myself And Death,”
“The moon goddess has learned to be gentle,”— Su-Tung P’o, tr. by Kenneth Rexroth, from Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind;“A Traveler,”
The horror was for love. The things we do for love like this are ugly, mad, full of sweat and regret. This love burns you and maims you and twists you inside out. It is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all. || Crimson Peak (2015)
“Moonlight made a ghostly path for me, and shadows, eerie and fantastic, lurked behind the trees.”— Daphné du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel