Ballet, Like Opera, Is Wonderful Because It Is Monstrous, The Hyper-development Of Skills Nobody Needs,

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

— W. Somerset Maugham, from The Painted Veil (Heinemann; January 1, 1949) (via The Hammock Papers)

some of you really should be more embarrassed about bragging that you don't pay attention when you watch tv.

#impossible to not fall in love

i have a splitting headache but im hyperfixated on epic the musical so we move (credits to leeisatree on pinterest for the image !!)

Was your star next to mine ?

nothing wrong with preferring healthy relationships but it really is astounding to me how often i'll go into the tags for The Unhealthy Relationships Show and see people posting "but what if the relationships were healthy though"

Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

ROMEO AND JULIET (1968) — dir. Franco Zeffirelli

Fairy Tales AU ~ Blackinnon ~ Sleeping beauty

― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless