#the moon on the lake

darlingvita:

“..the June nights are long and warm; the roses flowering; and the garden full of lust and bees..”

—Virginia Woolf in a letter to Vanessa Bell c. June 1926

violentwavesofemotion:

“Languorous, languid night. Aromas of chocolate and of cinnamon.”

—Anna de Noailles, tr. by Norman R. Shapiro, from Poems; “Spanish Evening,” (edited)