"A winter sky, a soft warmish December sky whose tender ash grey makes of the rose with its rotting shades a transparent flower of amber."
– Jean Lorrain, from Selected Poems; "Dropping Petals," written c. 1889
#romanticizing december is the only way to pass this month#also this may gonna sound so weird to you but i want snow in pastel colours too haha#dark academia#light academia#dark acadamia aesthetic#excerpts#fragments#poetry#books & libraries#romanticism#lit#classic aesthetic#classic literature#dark acadamia quotes#dark academism#light academism#words#spilled love#spilled ink#spilled thoughts#spilled words#chaotic academia#writings on tumblr#books and writing#peoms#soft academia#short peoms#litblr#classic lit#classic academia