o plunder of lilies

[christianrichardrice]

[zegalba]

Flowers by Irving Penn (1980)

[seaymph]

“Hellishly beautiful.”

— Jules Laforgue, tr. by William Jay Smith, Selected Writings; “The Moral Tales,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[oneiro1996]

design edition № 4 fiora perfume from 1995

[sacredwhores]

Jacques Rivette - La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

[letempsdelamourr]

[colossus2]

[muddyswirls]

[vaninnavaninni]

Auguste Clésinger, Femme piquée par un serpent, 1847

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Richard Howard, from “The Rock Garden,”

[makingimages]

[roserosette]

Secrets of a Soul, 1926, Georg Wilhelm Pabst

[theoptia]

Anne Carson, from Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Text ID: Two hundred and ten million years of desire wash through me. Blood-eater.

[frrenzetic]

[pheere]

Erased studio Ghent Belgium

[theconstantnymph]

Revenge in the House of Usher, 1982

[eaux-fortes]

“Two hundred and ten million years of desire wash through me. Blood-eater. Suppose I let it escape as seed shoots through the eyes of a dreaming god—would it frighten him away?”

— Anne Carson, The Anthropology of Water