bornanoldsoul

[bornanoldsoul]

extract from my diary 🤎

#dark academia #light academia #books #autumn #quotes #words #literature #original words #diary entry #dear diary

[bornanoldsoul]

"it's unbelievable how powerful of an impact words can have on us. to think that infinite combinations of letters can create such art is astonishing. to be able to trasmute thoughts and emotions into masterpieces is the greatest gift humanity has to offer"

— an extract from a book i'll probably never write

#dark academia #light academia #books #autumn #quotes #poetic words #words #literature #original words #original poems

[bornanoldsoul]

from the thesis i wrote for my bachelor's degree in languages and literature 🤍 it is titled "Femmes Fatales as Mythological Creatures in Romantic and Victorian Poetry". in it, i delve into the figure of the femme fatale, or fatal woman, as various mythological creatures, analysing selected poems by John Keats (my beloved), Percy Shelley and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

#dark academia #light academia #books #quotes #english literature #romantic literature #romantic poetry #victorian #victorian literature #victorian poetry #john keats #percy shelley #dante gabriel rossetti #pre raphaelite #pre raphaelism

[bornanoldsoul]

Jeanette Winterson, from Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

[bornanoldsoul]

Louise Glück, from "Persephone the Wanderer", Averno

[bornanoldsoul]

i read books because i can’t stand this reality. i don’t want to go to work, i don’t want to pay taxes. i want to live in a castle and i want to see dragons. and i want to fall in love with a 500 year old fae and spend all eternity with him. i want to explore new worlds and new stories, and reading is the only bridge that can lead me to all of it.

#dark academia #light academia #books #quotes #escape from reality #reading #autumn #books & libraries #bookworm #booklr

[bornanoldsoul]

I don't want a fictional man. I want to BE fictional. I want to escape this reality and live in a fictional world with him.

[bornanoldsoul]

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

[bornanoldsoul]

Instagram credit: tansybranscombe

[bornanoldsoul]

Ada Limón, from “Sometimes I Think My Body Leaves a Shape in the Air”, The Carrying: Poems

[bornanoldsoul]

once Fredrich Nietzsche said "I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature" while Fyodor Dostoevsky said "how gladly I watched the summer fade, the leaves turn yellow on the trees, and the grass dry out over the wide steppe! summer is gone at last! the winds of autumn howl and groan, the first snow falls in whirling flakes."

[bornanoldsoul]

There was a hint of spring in her sole green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk.

Toni Morrison

[bornanoldsoul]

source

[bornanoldsoul]

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters

[bornanoldsoul]

[bornanoldsoul]

[bornanoldsoul]

Some of the pretty places I saw in Ireland 📖