…there Is Something To Be Said For These Shiftless Days,

The very pinnacle of genius

here's a proposal, a film about the Romantics starring the cast of 2010s snl.

Kristen Wiig as Mary Shelley, John Mulaney as Percy Shelley, Bill Hader as Lord Byron, Pete Davidson (in a wig) as John Keats (I'd pay to see that tbh) and Vanessa Bayer as Claire Clairmont 

bonus points for Nick Kroll as John Polidori and Seth Meyers as Wordsworth

Basically one of my favourite monologues in theatre. So sad, poor Moritz :(

Youll never fumigate the demons no matter how much you smoke just say you love me for three good reasons and ill throw u the rope (you dont need it) because you are the survivor of more than one life and youre the only lover I had who ever slept with a knife but youre not judy garland oh just like me youve never really had a home of your own and im not tony hancock baby until the dawn well stone the crows and you see ive brought you flowers ive brought you flowers all collected from the old vic stage and ive been sitting here for hours baby just chasing these words across the page YOURE MY WATERLOO ILL BE UR GYPSY LANE AND IM SO GLAD WE KNOW JUST WHAT TO DO AND EXACTLY WHO TO BLAME.

2003 // 2015

“How often do I lull my rebellious blood to rest, for you cannot imagine anything so erratic, so restless as my heart.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (via theclassicsreader)

honestly the fact that I wrote so much about Mary Shelley in my English mock that I got an 8 despite not even finishing my article just sums me up

Goethe has said, that in youth we cannot be happy unless we love. I did not love; but I was devoured by a restless wish to be something to others.

Mary Shelley, from The Last Man. (via weepforadonais)

mum

idk what the general consensus is on carl barats ideal hair length but to ME every time he cuts his hair an angel loses its wings

“radiance and love just surge out of me like the sun.”

— Letters Home by Sylvia Plath (via decreation)

Reading Times, Pennsylvania, October 14, 1926