dream maker

il fuoco, il vento... l'aria e l'aqua pura... fonte di vita, per le sue creature.

[flowerytale]

Arthur Rimbaud, from "Qu'est-ce pour nous, Mon Cœur…", Collected Poems

[random-brushstrokes]

Arthur Spear - Sunrise (1921)

[random-brushstrokes]

Ramon Casas - Coro de monjas (1901-1902)

[detailsofpaintings]

Herbert James Draper, Day and the Dawnstar (detail)

1906

[italyfunds]

“You should love for no reason.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"Some long-forgot, enchanted, strange, Sweet garden of a thousand years ago,"

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Interim"

via southerncrossreview.org

[radstudies]

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925)

Pomegranates

[angelihabitant]

Animals Featured in the Aberdeen Bestiary Manuscript, 12th century AD

[seaymph]

“O muse of mine, in love with palaces,”

— Charles Baudelaire, excerpt of “The Venal Muse,” Les Fleurs du Mal (tr. by James McGowan)

[angelihabitant]

is the search setting like permanently screwed on this thing or what

[fruitandflowercrowns]

mothering my plantlife

source

[ofallingstar]

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer (1972)

[classictell-deactivated20231007]

The Sense of Sight, Annie Louisa Swynnerton

[antiqueanimals]

From Growing Up: Protected, written by Bernard Stonehouse in 2001 and illustrated by John Francis.

[etherea1ity]

sometimes do you ever just want to

[jiangwanyin]

— vladimir nabokov, in a letter to his wife [24 march 1937] from letters to véra (trans. olga voronina & brian boyd)

[almondfae]

beautiful rings 💍🦋