Portrait of a Lady

Julie Bracken posted a photo:

Now that lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
And twists one in her fingers while she talks.
“Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you who hold it in your hands”;
(Slowly twisting the lilac stalks)
“You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at situations which it cannot see.”
I smile, of course,
And go on drinking tea.

~ T S Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and “one of the twentieth century’s major poets.” He was born in St. Louis, Missouri to an old Yankee family.

Makeup & photos by Andy at Translife..

This beautiful dress and lots more in the 1940/50’s style, can be obtained from Vivien’s of Holloway

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29 Oct 14