la gheisha et le chevalier

I will rise After a thousand years lipping flowers And set my teeth in the silver of the moon

[birdsong217]

Antanas Sutkus. Rain. Vilnius, 1959.

[purplebuddhaproject]

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[trulyvincent]

Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817 - 1900)

[art-and-things-of-beauty]

A.D.M. Cooper (1856-1924) - River scene, oil on canvas, 128,3 x 76,2 cm.

[nemfrog]

“Aurora Borealis observed at Bossekop (Spitzberg) on January 21, 1839.”         L’ atmosphère, météorologie populaire. 1888,

e-rara

[danismm]

Country house in Dresden, Germany 1904. Arch. Brothers Vichtner.

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“Look at you. You’re the kindest person I know. Look how beautiful you are. Why do you need so much outside of yourself? Why isn’t what you are enough?”

—

[chance-a-simple-gardener]

Asked Darkness to the Light …

[metaphorformetaphor]

“even tomorrow you will have today. Don’t you know?”

— Ocean Vuong, from “Headfirst,” Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016)

[ruipalha]

Streets of Portugal (em Évora) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByuUqqPA0Nt/?igshid=1tz6sxptr8duz

[dai-mori]

Meguro, Tokyo, Mar. 2019

[yama-bato]

lionel orriols

http://www.photographyoffice.com/blog/2011/10/snow-timeless-by-lionel-orriols

[trulyvincent]

Daliah Ammar

[vw-lowell]

“What do I want? What am I doing?”

— Franz Kafka, in a letter to Milena Jesenská, from Letters to Milena (via virginiewoolf)

[silenceformysoul]

Henry Fuseli  - The Shepherd’s Dream, from ‘Paradise Lost’

[fordarkmornings]

New England Interior (1906)

Edmund Tarbell

Oil on canvas

[aqua-regia009]

Theatre of Shakespeare (Detail), 1886 - Gustav Klimt The Death of Romeo and Juliet. Performance at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London.

[weirdlandtv]

More nightmarish fun from Viennese illustrator, Franz Wacik (1883-1938).

This illustration was published in German magazine, Die Muskete, circa 1906-1911.