[primulaceas]

June Jordan, “Resolution #1,003.” Haruko/Love Poems

[rfsnyder]

Marc Chagall The Birthday, 1915

[ingydars]

paphiopedilum concolor wikipedia

[achillesinhighheels]

brooch from Vienna, dating approximately between 1898 and 1900.

[bobemajses]

Jewish wedding in Tehran, Iran, 1992

[ainavisa]

a table of my own

[theinternetarchive]

ornamental tapestry weave square, wool; egyptian c. 400-600s a.d.

[eternaloptimistsphere]

start seeing everything as God, but keep it a secret

[todaviia]

This quote is not by the great Persian poet Hafez, who lived in Shiraz, Persia from 1325–1390, it's by Daniel Ladinsky, a contemporary American poet who "translated" Hafez into English and whose books about Hafez are the most popular "versions" in the West nowadays - the problem is just that the poems written by Ladinsky have absolutely nothing to do with actual Hafez poems (which follow very strict form conventions and the difference is obvious to anyone who has seen a real Hafez poem). Ladinsky does not speak Persian and claims his "translations" came to him in dreams, but if you look at his poems, you see that they are essentially original poetry published under Hafez's name and at most loosely inspired. I can really recommend this article about the whole topic

Fake Hafez: How a supreme Persian poet of love was erased

That so many of the poems attributed to Hafez are fake reveals a Western appropriation of Muslim spirituality.

[mionakt]

The door to Leonard Cohen’s house in Hydra, Greece.

[theweight]

i cld never shave bush not just bc im morally opposed to it but also bc what would i play with when im lying in bed thinking…a bush is the beard of the modern day philosopher

[vesselofdecadence]

Nan Goldin, Paz de la Huerta & Nathaniel Brown. Lust For Life, 2009

[irenelichtensteinblog]

Robert van der Hilst, Cuban Interior

[zemestoun]

antoin sevruguin, iran, c. 1890

[utronabalcone]

ana mendieta - untitled (grass on woman), 1972

[mona-l1sa]

[koenji]

Folio from a Manuscript of the Qur'an. Iran, Shiraz, 1550-1575. Ink, colors and gold on paper.

[peaceinthestorm]

Henri Le Sidaner (1862 - 1939, French) ~ La Ronde, 1897, lithograph

[Source: The British Museum]