Natalie Portman, captured by Tim Walker’s camera, embodies the spirit of the new Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet. More on: http://bit.ly/1nHhhHh
“Your eyes half-thrush Half-angel and your drowsy Lips where float flowers of kiss.”
— E.E Cummings, “In the rain”
“…If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers…”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince.
“She usually dressed in pink and wore a peony in her hair or pinned to her dress. At one dance, she wore a stiff pink organdy dress made by her mother, with fresh flowers at her waist. Her hair was long like a child’s, and she wore it in ringlets with lovelocks at her temples. She moved gracefully and seemed completely self-assured. After her dance the young men swarmed about her. Everyone wanted to know who she was. Zelda accepted the surge of admirers as if they were her due, and that night marked her transformation into a belle. It was as complete as the happy ending of a fairy tale. One admirer noted, ‘I felt happy to be next to such a pretty girl in her pink ballet skirt who all the boys would now be after.’”
— Zelda: A Biography (via manyfetes)
“…she put a touch of perfume at her temple and between her breasts; the earth was perfumed with the aroma of a thousand crushed leaves and flowers…”
— Clarice Lispector, from The Book of Delights; “The Beginning of Spring,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
“Traditionally, too, a poet’s poems are his ‘flowers’ – anthoi in Greek – a collection of poems being an ‘anthology’.”
— Catherine Maxwell’s Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture.
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