Happiness Is:

I swear by the moon I am most melancholy soft, and most outrageous sentimental.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “The Lamp and the Bell,” published c. 1921 (via violentwavesofemotion)

On the evening breeze, a lullaby, low and sweet // Part 1

small things to add to a hand written letter:

a teabag of your favourite tea

heart shaped note with cute drawings

stickers on the outside of the letter, and inside

handmade paper doll

small print or postcard

a sketch or a little painting or a poem

glitter or sequins or pearls or buttons

small candies or bubblegum

cut out magazine pictures or articles

folded paper, like origami

textile like small ribbons or clothing patches

coins or flat things found in a souvenir shop

pressed flower or leaf

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”

— Victor Hugo (via misswallflower)

“My brother used to ask the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless but it is right; for all is like the ocean, all things flow and touch each other; a disturbance in one place is felt at the other end of the world.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Titania (Anita Louise) and the faeries in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)

Odysseus Elytis, from The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis (2004); “Axion Esti,” (x)

“It seems I’ve stopped speaking with my voice. Part of me fell asleep and just watches.”

— Fernando Pessoa, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa (via pavellaning)

ode to Flora