Blackthorn Winter

Through coldness and through keenness, Dear hearts, take comfort so: Somewhere or other doubtless These make the blackthorn blow.

[luthienne]

Mahmoud Darwish, from Journal of an Ordinary Grief (tr. from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi)

[Text ID: A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees; they are the ribs of childhood.]

[gnossienne]

[grundoonmgnx]

J. C. Leyendecker, Rowers At Rest, 

[satanasaeternus]

William Blake

[hildegardavon]

Gustave Moreau, 1826-1898

La Parque et L'Ange de la Mort, 1890, huile sur toile

Musée Gustave Moreau (Paris),  Inv. 84

[enchantedbook]

'A princess Walking in a Forest with Birds' by Haldane Macfall (1860 - 1928)

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Vase called “Silenes” by Rene Lalique, 1938, France.

[detailedart]

Detail n°2/3 of The Seven Works of Mercy (1606–1607), by Caravaggio.

[blackthornwinter]

Ty puts his hand in the Fenris wolf's mouth.

Source: https://snl.no/Fenrisulven

[blackthornwinter]

Grani in the fire.

Source unknown, found at https://vrijeschoolachtergronden.wordpress.com/tag/edda/

[blackthornwinter]

In Norse mythology, the sun and moon are chased by two wolves, Skoll and Hate, in an eternal cycle.

[psikonauti]

Richard Müller (German, 1874-1954)

[p9sh-blog]

[soracities]

Inger Christensen, Alphabet

[heartshop]

Ellen Bass, ‘The Thing Is’

[beguines]

Mark Laver, "I'm gonna shine out in the wild silence" / "Everything looks beautiful, when you're young and pretty" / "I may never be unhappy again"

[polkadotmotmot]

Thomas Baines - The Eastern Cataracts of the Victoria Falls, 1869

[mybeingthere]

John Ruskin, Perspective Studies of Paper Crowns,1870.

Ruskin Collection.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

[blueblackdream]

Isabelle Adjani in La Reine Margot, 1994 (dir. Patrice Chéreau)