saw u in a dream and wanted to stay with u forever and ever so i didn’t wake up until noon the next day

and if the sun ain’t shining for you I hope the moon makes up for it

I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

Sharon Olds, from "Something Is Happening", One Secret Thing: Poems

You, who have found your way into my last dream.

Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Epic and Dramatic Fragments and Long Poems; from ‘Prologue’, tr. Judith Hemschemeyer

— The Pond, Mary Oliver

[text ID: August of another summer, and / once again / I am drinking the sun / and the lilies again are spread / across the water.]

via hanaharafumiki

Legend (1985) dir. Ridley Scott