My chest is aching, burns like a furnace

The burning keeps me alive

[breathing-dystopia]

[breathing-dystopia]

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

....endless amount of knowledge ...

Herman Hesse's library

[moroccanmanga]

Riad Dar El Malaika in El Jadida, Morocco

[unaliveish]

michelle

[zagrebinaa]

[wovi]

*

susan sontag

[lovingsylvia]

Sylvia Plath (age 21) in Wellesley, Massachusetts holding a dandelion puff, c. 29 August 1954

...

Palely lit by

snuff-ruffed dandelions, white daisy wheels and a tiger faced

pansy, it glows. O it's no family tree

--Sylvia Plath, from the poem "Polly's Tree", 1959, in: The Collected Poems (1981)

[fordarkmornings]

William John Hennessy (Irish, 1839-1917)

A Secret, 1889

[remainsoflilies]

Frida Kahlo attending an art gallery exhibition of Jewish portraits by Lionel Reiss at the Hotel Park Crescent in New York City, New York. May 10, 1933.

[lordsfromelsewhere]

the sexiest accessory (and i'm not talking about the hat)

other art

[archimaps]

The Grand Staircase under the Cupola of the Galeries Lafayette, Paris

[wintercorrybriea]

gerhard richter’s stained glass window for cologne cathedral (2007)

[professor-winter]

ʀᴀɪɴʏ ᴊᴜʟʏ

[art-history-nerds]

The Priestess (1896) by John William Godward

[decatris]

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Walking Dress.

Designer: Madeleine Laferrière (French, 1847–1912)

Date: ca. 1893

Medium: Silk, cotton