Et in Arcadia ego

pastoral wallowings not affiliated with Edmund Spenser

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

The fact is, that I have broken with the past. I have decided, coolly and calmly, as I believe, that it is necessary to my success, or, at any rate, to my happiness, to abjure for a while my conventional self, and to assume a simple, natural character.

Henry James, from A Landscape Painter (Scott and Seltzer, 1919)

A LA JAMES

[wordsnquotes]

I’m not used to being loved. I wouldn’t know what to do.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, ”More Than Just A House” (via wordsnquotes)

[thunderstruck9]

Julie Mehretu (Ethiopian/American, b. 1970), Untitled (Van Gelder 3; JM D-1.05), 2005. Ink, gouache and watercolor on paper, 63.5 x 95.9 cm.

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• Badshahi Mosque, Lahore, Pakistan •

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Stars in Snails’ Sexes via Joan Miro

Size: 97x130 cm Medium: oil, canvas

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[mournfulroses]

I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls. Now unhappiness means vapour, atmosphere, interest. I am often unhappy. I was cursing my fate at two this morning, sitting up in bed, wishing to be killed instantly. You will never guess why.

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Edward Sackville-West c. September 1926 (via woolfdaily)

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

August 

from Beeton’s Garden Management c1871

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[dark-splendor]

and now you are and i am now and we’re a mystery which will never happen again

e.e. cummings (via dark-splendor)

July am I right

[thefugitivesaint]

Herbert Cole (1867-1930), ‘Fairy Song’, “Fairy Gold-  A Book of Old English Fairy Tales” by Ernest Rhys, 1913 Source

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portland, oregon

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Senai Senna

[colinpout]

Portofino plz

[colinpout]

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets