the heart's fable

there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

[sandmoonyelse]

[cma-islamic-art]

Luxury Inlaid Container, c. 1250-1350, Cleveland Museum of Art: Islamic Art

Silver and gold inlay transforms this brass box into a luxury container. Courtiers, birds, and fretwork form the decoration while inscriptions extend good wishes. On the body it reads: “Brilliance, and nobility, and patience, and modesty, and glory, and long life, and piety, and patience.” Size: Diameter: 11.4 cm (4 ½ in.); Overall: 12 cm (4 ¾ in.); Diameter of box: 10.1 cm (4 in.); Box: 9.7 cm (3 13/16 in.) Medium: sheet brass, inlaid with silver and gold

https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.482

[hawkaye]

LA SOLITUDINE DEI NUMERI PRIMI (2010)

[carnemancy]

a sculpture i’ve been working on for a while to add to my senior exhibit!! i’m very happy with how it turned out, i’m thinking of titling it ‘milk teeth‘ 👌

[ankhora]

Connecticut garden belonging to garden designer and antique dealer Michael Trapp.

[lacetulle]

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[tocamelot]

Conduit Court, Skipton Castle by Alison Christine

[moonsiren]

“The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary. Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Moon and the Yew Tree 

[grimae]

A page from the Book of the Sun - VI

[weltenwellen]

Vincent van Gogh quoting Victor Hugo’s “L’année terrible” in a letter to Theo van Gogh, July 1888

[spiritusloci]

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Blue Iris”, Devotions

[drugmoms]

milan kundera, ignorance: a novel

ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous

[michaelgrays]

“I will not be another flower picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.”

— Erin Van Vuren (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[glazedeye-s]

Temple of Asclepius (Aesculapius): Villa Borghese Gardens, Rome.

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“there is only your glance against so much emptiness, only your light against extinction, only your love to shut out the shadows.”

— Pablo Neruda, from Love Sonnet “XC”  One Hundred Love Sonnets, trans. Stephen Tapscott, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, ed. Ilan Stavans (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005)

[heartcountry]

“You meant more than life to me. I lived through you not knowing, not knowing I was living.”

— John Ashbery, opening lines to “The New Higher” from Where Shall I Wander (HarperCollins, 2005)