Ida in der Waldeinsamkeit

"for beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear, and we revere it so, because it calmly disdains to destroy us."

[nemfrog]

Cover owl. Reptiles and birds. 1869.

Internet Archive

[calellon]

A Man embracing a Woman, Dosso Dossi (Giovanni di Luteri), ca. 1525 (detail)

[academiaatitsfinest]

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,

And Mourners to and fro

Kept treading - treading - till it seemed

That Sense was breaking through -

— Emily Dickinson

[redlipstickresurrected]

Gizem Akdağ (Turkish, b. 1995, Istanbul, Turkey) - Untitled, Painting

[airesbrown]

[lionfloss]

Reenagross Park, Ireland

[hopecorediva]

reminder to breathe

[habiba-mohab]

[placeeee]

[iiumz]

[jjimjil-bang]

sere favoleggianti, vogue italia december 1985, by albert watson and by manuela pavesi

[lenamolfesi]

finestra, Quartiere Coppede, Roma

[lustingupon]

[alisaineurope]

Rome, Italy

© Nicole Franzen

[kittesencula]

[ether--net]

[gusvanscant]

'The Great Beauty' (dir. by Paolo Sorrentino) [2013]