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⚜ 𝔔𝔲𝔬𝔱𝔢 𝔊𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔢𝔫: 𝔏𝔦𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔰 ⚜

✥ “I row my beautiful, temporary body through this water-lily world.”— Mary Oliver, from Thirst; Six Recognitions of the Lord.

✥ “But if I were a lily I think I would wait all day for the green face of the hummingbird to touch me.”— Mary Oliver, excerpt of “Lilies”, in House of Light

✥ “Lay me where sweet flowers blossom, Where the dainty lily blows, Where the pinks and violets mingle, Lay me underneath the rose.”— Small Craft Warnings, Tennessee Williams

✥ “(…) shimmering blues of the wild aster, blossom of the lily, immense, gold-veined—”— Louise Glück, from September Twilight in “Poems 1962-2012″

✥“My mind, this floating glove, or lily or whatever I called it, wants to drift off into some obscure pool, and be shaded by weeds. I don’t want to talk or laugh or make engagements…”— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Ethel Smyth c. August 1930

✥ “A lily-girl, not made for this world’s pain.”— Madonna Mia, by Oscar Wilde

✥ “You are a Lily - the epitome of delicate beauty.”— J. Mtsweni

✥ “TITUS: …fresh tears stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey dew Upon a gathered lily almost withered.”— William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus Act III.I

✥ “Darkness enters the face of the lily”Mary Oliver, The Lily

✥ “Spring flowers, Autumn moons, water lilies still carry away my heart like a lost boat. As long as I am flesh and bone I will never find rest. There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”— Chu Shu Chen, from One Hundred Poems from the Chinese; Plaint. Trans. Kenneth Rexroth.

✥ “I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much, but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.”— Francesca Lia Block

✥ “She was there in the middle of the lake, surrounded by the awestruck swans, a nymph, a real nymph, submerging her skin like roses in the crystalline waters. Her hips like a flower shrouded by foam seemed to turn golden, bathed by the light coming through the leaves. Oh! I saw lilies, roses, snow, gold…”— Rubén Darío - The Nymph

✥ “…and when I think of you all my skin smells of lilies of the valley.”— Claude de Burine, from The Visitor: Poems; “The Other Life,” c. 1990

✥ “My limbs were like bent lilies”— Else Lasker-Schüler, Eros

✥ “I grew angry and cursed, with the curse of silence, the river, and the lilies, and the wind, and the forest, and the heaven, and the thunder, and the sighs of the water-lilies.”– Edgar Allan Poe, from “The Complete Works of E. A. P. : “Siope, A Fable””

✥ “A bed of lilies flower upon her cheek.”— Phineas Fletcher, from The Element Book of Mystical Verse; from “The Purple Island”

✥ “… your flesh is lilies / Under a frozen moon,”— Arthur Symons, from Poetry & Prose; “Morbidezza”

✥ “you were the bride of mysteries adorned with lilies of shadow”— Nelly Sachs, from Night, night; O the Chimneys: Selected Poems.

✥ “Gleaming lilies bathed in moonlight seemed to watch the stars above them.”— Heinrich Heine, Donna Clara from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, trans. Emma Lazarus

✥ “Your soul is like the crystal stone / That mirrors the light of the moon, / Like lilies breathing toward the dark…”— Renée Vivien, from A Crown of Violets; “Mystic Song”

✥ “only love’s baby dream, untouchable, innocent, / till we return where the water lilies made us smile…”— Macha Louis Rosenthal, from As for Love: Poems & Translations; “Water Lilies, White Violets”

✥ “Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.”— Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water

✥ “I gathered wild lilies and honeysuckle and bleeding heart,”— Patricia A. McKillip, from “Winter Rose,” originally published c. 1997

✥ “You are my palace, my evening and my autumn, And my sail of silk and my garden of lilies.”— Renée Vivien, excerpt from To the Well-Beloved, tr. by Gillian Spraggs

✥ “… girls who love the embraces of lilies / And melodize the depth of sky”— Odysseus Elytis - Blissful Donna, tr. by Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris

✥ “Come, my beloved, / consider the lilies.”— Anne Sexton, All My Pretty Ones; from ‘From the Garden’

✥ “Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”— Oscar Wilde, from The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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actual femcel vs femcel in spirit

actually i'm anti aesthetic. actually i don't believe in living my life according to the mandate of the same 500 pinterest images. actually i think my life has some meaning, some shades of color to it, outside of a set of rules and stereotypes that are presented to me in a tidy little package. actually, maybe i'm the ugly color gradient and that means there is nuance to the way i live. actually, i don't want to JUST be a witch, or a clean girl, or a mythic bitch, or the feminine mystique, or a coastal grandmother, or a cottagecore lover of women, or punk, or rock, or death metal, or goth. actually being a girl hasn't been anything like what's been shown to me -- and so i will be a girl on my own terms. actually i think being a girl has been nothing like the movies or the moodboards. actually FUCK your moodboards and your makeup too. actually i'm nothingandeverythingcore. actually im alive im alive im alive and that requires no aestheticization. it requires no sanitization of existence. actually life is most beautiful when it is diverse. actually i will try everything and know everything and nothing will stop me; my life will be varied and beautiful and messy and chaotic and occasionally organized and exactly the way it ought to be, you FUCKERS.

L’amour à la mer - 1964

Layla, Buffalo '66 (1998)