imaginationandheartbreak:

postgraduatepunk:

Renée Vivien, sadly forgotten lesbian symbolist poète maudit, decadence incarnate, and general badass.

“What she remembers are the kisses they forget…
She cannot learn to desire without feeling grief,
She who gazes still, with melancholy beset,
At flowers dying after night orgies, so brief.”
Sad BACCHANTE, tr. Melanie Davis