violentwavesofemotion: “When we’re most intense—who’ll flinch?” — Arthur Rimbaud, from Selected Poems & Prose; “Phrases,”
finelythreadedsky: there is the sea (and who will drain it dry?) producing stain of abundant purple, costly as silver and ever fresh, with which to dye our clothesAeschylus, Agamemnon 958-960 seemed like a good idea to make a textile out of a line about textiles