Courage, dear heart

{nilüfer peri} • turkey • XXIV english major, occasional writer, amateur cinephile personal sideblog

[nymphastral]

“I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

[classicdavinci]

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Grand Odalisque, 1814

[uncleclaudius]

The mosaic floor of a dining room in a Roman villa in Antandros in Anatolia, which was occupied between the 3rd and 6th centuries AD.

[ethanhunt-deactivated20230911]

You see, he and I are… he and I are so similar. Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

[ancientcharm]

Monumental marble statue of Athena (Minerva) found in one of the most important rooms of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum.

 National Archaeological Museum of Naples. Photo: Giorgio Albano

[moon-kissed-corner]

Details from the painting Medea meditating on killing her children (1852), by Bezzuoli.

[starswaterairdirt]

autochrome by Thomas Shields Clarke, 1910

[divineandmajesticinone]

Stefanie Martini as Lady Ev EMERALD CITY (2016-2017)

[koredzas]

Jan van Eyck - Madonna of Chancellor Rolin. Detail. 1420 - 1440

[lovingsylvia]

“You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.”

— The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, diary entry no 188 for 14 May 1956

[arthistoryfeed]

Detail of a fruit-bearing tree from the Great Palace Mosaics. Culture: Early Byzantine. Date: c. 6th century AD (Justinian I era). Medium: Floor mosaic featuring limestone, terracotta, and glass tesserae. Collection: Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. Photo licensed by me.

[milksockets]

opéra côté costume - opéra national de paris (1995)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Eavan Boland, from An Origin Like Water: Poems 1967–1987; “Yeats in Civil War,” (x)

[huariqueje]

In Time - Arduino Cantàfora , 2006.

Italian , b. 1945 -

Oil on wood , 70 x 50 cm

[books0977]

Pleasant Dreams (1852). Henry Nelson O’Neil (1817-1880).

[m-queen-of-space]

“—softly, with hands as gentle as rain, I shall strangle him.”

— Angela Carter, The Erl-King (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold and sapphire ring, England, 15th century

from The British Museum

[english-history-trip]

The inscription reads:

une fame nominatiue a fait de moy son datiff par la parole genitiue en depit de lacusatiff

...which, as far as I can tell, is a Middle French grammar joke.