valley of the many-colored grass

And by strange alchemy of brain His pleasures always turn’d to pain His naivete to wild desire His wit to love — his wine to fire And so, being young and dipt in folly I fell in love with melancholy, And used to throw my earthly rest And quiet all...

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Postcard Collection

East. West. Home's Best. A Merry Christmas to you. For Levi, From Gene. Los Angeles, 1912.

[bebs-art-gallery]

The Mausoleum by the Phantom Painter

[bebs-art-gallery]

Wounds of the Earth

— by xis.lanyx

[grickle14]

Cats, amiright?

[myjetpack]

A recent cartoon for New Scientist.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Nightwalkers by Ben J on ArtStation

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Collecting Souls, clay crayons on black paper by DariiaZhyrova

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Stop All the Clocks Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message: He Is Dead. Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear white cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good. - W.H. Auden

[dendrophileweirdo]

Franz Kafka 🥀

I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.

[thatsbelievable]

[feral-ballad]

Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Hasan Javadi & Susan Sallée, from Another Birth: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad; "In the dark"

[Text ID: "In the sorrowful sky / a star was burning / a star was falling / a star was dying"]

[orca-soup]

I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.

C.S. Lewis

[aqua-regia009]

The Sorrow by Artem Demura

https://www.artstation.com/stargrave

[mournfulroses]

Arthur Rimbaud, from The Complete Works of Arthur Rimbaud; "A Heart Under A Cassock,"

[neckkiss]

Stranger Things

[heartpeacenquiet]

[jramseyi]

Pet Dragon