[lilithsplace]

Untitled (rain drops), 2017 - Paul Manes (b. 1948) oil on canvas  |  source:

[daweyt]

— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; 'Guilty of Dust'”, published c. 2017.

[mrsclarkkent]

“Calm and queenly, comes the summer nymph, July—crowned with azure, clothed with splendour,”

— John Critchley Prince, from Dreams & Realities In Verse and Prose; “July,”

[florial]

[arinewman7]

Early Winter

Anna Weyant

oil on canvas, 2023

[thunderstruck9]

Anna Weyant (Canadian, 1995), Early Winter, 2023. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in.

[mournfulroses]

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

[simena]

Artemisia Gentileschi (detail)

[moradadabeleza]

Juul Kraijer

[mythbehavior]

“the anatomy of summer, as The physical pine, the metaphysical pine.”

— Wallace Stevens, from section II of “Credences of Summer,” The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Vintage Books, 1990)

[boykeats]

                                               You’re right— Holiness is in the hands even if it’s always the head            that gets haloed.

— C.T. Salazar, “Self Portrait as Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking,” published in Bad Pony Mag

[the-dauphine]

“The most precious thing is vitality – not in any sinister Lawrentian sense, but just the will + energy + appetite to do what one wants to do + not to be ‘sunk’ by disappointments. Aristotle is right: happiness is not to be aimed at; it is a by-product of activity aimed at.”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947—1963  (via sartreuse)

[izvletchenie]

Dieric Bouts, The Ascension of the Elect (detail), c. 1470

[taujr-resort]

[still-heels]

[theofficiallorddgc]

[conspectusargosy]

Princess flower compared in UVIVF and visible light. I love the strange anther on these.

[poetic-questions]

—Franz Kafka, "The Diaries" (from the travel diaries, 1912)