sleep...

I love sleep.

My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” 

― Ernest Hemingway

Leanne Surfleet

L'invitation au voyage...

L'invitation au voyage

Mon enfant, ma soeur,

Songe à la douceur

D'aller là-bas vivre ensemble!

Aimer à loisir,

Aimer et mourir

Au pays qui te ressemble!

Les soleils mouillés

De ces ciels brouillés

Pour mon esprit ont les charmes

Si mystérieux

De tes traîtres yeux,

Brillant à travers leurs larmes.

Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,

Luxe, calme et volupté.

Des meubles luisants,

Polis par les ans,

Décoreraient notre chambre;

Les plus rares fleurs

Mêlant leurs odeurs

Aux vagues senteurs de l'ambre,

Les riches plafonds,

Les miroirs profonds,

La splendeur orientale,

Tout y parlerait

À l'âme en secret

Sa douce langue natale.

Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,

Luxe, calme et volupté.

Vois sur ces canaux

Dormir ces vaisseaux

Dont l'humeur est vagabonde;

C'est pour assouvir

Ton moindre désir

Qu'ils viennent du bout du monde.

— Les soleils couchants

Revêtent les champs,

Les canaux, la ville entière,

D'hyacinthe et d'or;

Le monde s'endort

Dans une chaude lumière.

Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,

Luxe, calme et volupté.— Charles Baudelaire

Think, would it not be
Sweet to live with me
All alone, my child, my love? –
Sleep together, share
All things, in that fair
Country you remind me of?
Charming in the dawn
There, the half-withdrawn
Drenched, mysterious sun appears
In the curdled skies,
Treacherous as your eyes
Shining from behind their tears.

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magnifique

I remember it….

I remember it,

precisely and perfectly,

the birth of this love.

—Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson
Romy Schneider et Alain Delon chez eux à Tancrou en 1959. Photographies de Michel Brodsky

share...

Continue to share your heart with people even if it’s been broken.

— Amy Poehler
Elson Photographed by Tim Walker

here and elsewhere...

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double.

They are here and elsewhere.

— Albert Camus
Vogue Italia January 2003 “A Cut Above” by Steven Meisel

I am holding...

I am holding your name

underneath my tongue

in case you ask me

to make my favourite

sound.

— Stolenwine
Benjamin Gross

the shadow of the wind...

 
I was raised among books,
making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind 

INSOMNIA. Técnica mixta. 201, Joseba Eskubi

talk to me...

Talk to me about sadness.

I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either;

I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

— Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters

"The outsiders". Photographed by Beau Grealy for Flair February 2009

a day for myself...

...My mouth is full of night and water.

The abiding moon determines

what I do not have.

What I have is in the midst of the waves,

a ray of water, a day for myself,

an iron depth.

— Pablo Neruda

koo bon chung for vogue korea july 2011

i reach….

I saw a star, I reached for it. I missed, so I accepted the sky.

— Scott Fortino

Valerie Hammond, Blue Anemone, 2011

x

I swear that when our lips touch, I can taste the next 60 years of my life.

— Rudy Francisco, Love Poem 

Pina Bausch

60...

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Contributor Magazine Issue: s/s 2012- Red Plastic Moon-  Photography: Jesse Laitinen

goal….

- "Where are you going?"

- "I don’t know," I said, "just out of here. Out of here, nothing else, it’s the only way I can reach my goal."

- "So, you know your goal?" he asked.

- "Yes," I replied. "I’ve just told you. Out of here — that’s my goal."

— Franz Kafka, from The Departure  

mouvement statique | celin rod larsen by lea nielsen for l’autre magazine

respect...

If they respect you, respect them.

If they disrespect you you, still respect them.

Do not allow the actions of others to decrease your good manners, because you represent yourself, not others.

- Mohammad Zeyara

"Doves" CR Fashion Book Fall/Winter 13.14, Anna Ewers & Ondria Hardin by Maurizio Bavutti

layers….

 A person, like an onion, is made up by multiple layers.

When you love a person, you get to take away all their layers and truly see what they are like on the inside.

You may cry as you peel away each layer and discover not all of them are sweet.

Tina Chan, Imperfect

Publication: CR Fashion Book Fall/Winter 2013-2014- Photographer: Maurizio Bavutti

happy life...

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal not to people or things.

-Albert Einstein

wrdvnr

Amsterdam….

All inside, our Amsterdam she hides

watery-eyed that howling wind

she's waving hi, her other hands in mine

oh,oh silhouette she's growing tall and fine

she's got my back, she'll follow me

down every street, no matter what my crime

All inside, our Amsterdam she flies

hoarding the kites, that howling wind

she'll take everything, but she's easy on the eyes

oh churches and trains, 

while they all look the same to me now, 

they shoot you someplace, while we ache

to come home somehow

love this song- listen Gregory Alan Isakov

I have lived and visited many different countries and continents, besides my home country and I am itchy to move again. We have been thinking for a while now of relocating from Australia to Holland or somewhere else, I think we will. I crave for change, but I fear change too- you know that feeling?  

inspiration#77

Barry Lategan|gvo|anthropologie|the selby

xxx

How somebody can leave your world in the blink of an eye and be gone forever…

It’s too enormous to think about. It’s too hard.

— Haley James Scott, One Tree Hill
Erin Lawlor

Today 3 years ago- I miss you Daniela
xxx

disrespectful...

What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully?

-Don Corleone
samballardini

karma...

unknown original source

taste...

Be sure to taste your words,

before you spit them out.

words: unknown original source

"Berlin" Zoo No. 31 Summer 2011, Masha Tyelna by Joost Vandebrug

i imagine you….

Often when I imagine you

your wholeness cascades into many shapes.

You run like a herd of luminous deer

and I am dark, I am forest.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

kristin vestgard

character...

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kristen McMenamy in “Dame of Thrones" by Tim Walker for W Magazine September 2012

Self pity….

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.” 

― John Gardner

Photographed by Tyrone Lebon for Stussy Fall 2013

never...

Never test the depth of the river with both of your feet

—Warren Buffett

Kate Moss, Harpers Bazaar April 1994

Perfect day….

Just a perfect day
drink Sangria in the park
And then later
when it gets dark, we go home

Just a perfect day
feed animals in the zoo
Then later
a movie, too, and then home

Oh, it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spend it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on

Just a perfect day
problems all left alone
Weekenders on our own
it's such fun

Just a perfect day
you made me forget myself
I thought I was
someone else, someone good

Oh, it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on

You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow

Lou reed- Perfect day
listen
“Be my baby” by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia February 2004

yesterday was a perfect day, thank you babe

fear….

Because fear kills everything.

Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

— Cornelia Funke

Stranger Than Paradise' Tilda Swinton by Tim Walker for W May 2013