flowerytale:

Jeanette Winterson, from The Stone Gods

iamcatalleya:

Its no coincidence that a whole lot of old goddesses are snake goddesses. Also the snake shedding its skin is linked with women shedding their uterine linings.

jasminesapphires:

“Small delights – a clear winter sunset through the natural iron grillwork of black trees, a street lamp shining through ice-encased branches, blue sky glittering, and sun on ice-crusted snow. Loveliness, loveliness.”

— Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals,”
(via violentwavesofemotion)

leahesque:

megairea:

“— the incense of those slumbering roses —”

— Edgar Allan Poe, from To Helen, 1848.

kaalbela:

It takes two by Steve McCurry