Per aspera ad astra

She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars Kelly Rhea 23.

[themakeupbrush]

Schiaparelli Fall 2022 Couture

[gnossienne]

Mahmoud Darwish (محمود درويش‎, 1941 – 2008), “A Lover from Palestine” (Ashiq min filastin), 1966

[vaninnavaninni]

Oksana Skorik after Swan Lake in the Mariinsky Theatre, ph. by Catherine Pollak.

[centuriespast]

The Commons Petitioning Elizabeth I to Marry Solomon Joseph Solomon (1860–1927) Parliamentary Art Collection

[maureen2musings]

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papa_scene

[megairea]

[Her] eyes are of icy water and her tresses of moonlight.

Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me, 1904. (via megairea)

[elaena]

Princess Elia was a good woman, Your Grace. She was kind and clever, with a gentle heart and a sweet wit.

[juliacaesaris-deactivated202109]

top five historical events | asked by @theodoraporphyrogenite !!

[luthienne]

Adonis, from Selected Poems; “Season of Tears” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

[boykeats]

“So many scholars have spent so much time trying to establish whether Arthur existed at all that they have lost track of the single truth that he exists over and over.”

— John Steinbeck

[ladiesofcinema]

JODIE COMER as Elizabeth of York

The White Princess (2017)

[enchantedbook]

‘The Rainbow Book of American Folk Tales and Legends ‘

illustration by Marc Simont (1958)

[livethroughtthis]

Yoshitaka Amano + purple

[deforest]

BEWITCHED (1965)     — 1.36 “Cousin Edgar”

[andante-elegiaco]

“And you wanted to be real, to be swallowed by what drowns you only to surface, brimming at the mouth.”

— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (via luthienne)

[glowdetails]

details @ elie saab spring 2020 couture

[weusedtobegiants]

First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other. Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.

Rumi, from The Essential Rumi tr. Coleman Barks