latin phrases worth knowing:

stcrlghts:

(in case you wanted to know because i fucking love this language) 

• ad astra per aspera - to the stars through difficulties 
  
• alis volat propriis - he flies by his own wings 
• amantium irae amoris integratio est - the quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love 
• ars longa, vita brevis - art is long, life is short 
• aut insanity homo, aut versus facit - the fellow is either mad or he is composing verses 
• dum spiro spero - while I breathe, I hope 
• ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem - with the sword, she seeks peace under liberty 
• exigo a me non ut optimus par sim sed ut malis melior - I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better than the bad
• experiential docet - experience teaches 
• helluo librorum - a glutton for books (bookworm) 
• in libras libertas - in books, freedom 
• littera scripta manet - the written letter lasts 
• mens regnum bona possidet - an honest heart is a kingdom in itself 
• mirabile dictu - wonderful to say 
• nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - there is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part 
• omnia iam fient quae posse negabam - everything which I used to say could not happen, will happen now 
• poeta nascitur, non fit - the poet is born, not made 
• qui dedit benificium taceat; narrat qui accepit - let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who has received it tell it 
• saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit - often, it is not advantageous to know what will be 
• sedit qui timuit ne non succederet - he who feared he would not succeed sat still 
• si vis pacem, para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war 
• struit insidias lacrimis cum feminia plorat - when a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears 
• sub rosa - under the rose 
• trahimir omnes laudis studio - we are led on by our eagerness for praise
• urbem latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit - he found the city a city of bricks; he left it a city of marble 
• ut incepit fidelis sic permanet - as loyal as she began, so she remains

onscreenkisses:

“I do believe his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars.”

— Richard Siken

coral:

“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

—  Pablo Neruda (via coral)

unena:

from man and his symbols by Carl Jung

cruvcio:

“I feel small; but so are stars from a distance.”

— ten word poem, i. (via somniloquencee)

acentury-at-sea:

Anne Carson, from Plainwater-Essays and Poetry

idiotharringtons:

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”

— Vincent Van Gogh  (via alunit)

readingismyfavorite:

“The vault of heaven, full of soft, shining stars, stretched vast and fathomless above him. The Milky Way ran in two pale streams from the zenith to the horizon. The fresh, motionless, still night enfolded the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the church gleamed out against the sapphire sky. The autumn flowers, in the garden, were slumbering. The silence of earth seemed to melt into the silence of the heavens. The mystery of earth was one with the mystery of the stars….”

The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky