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[drencrome]

[barcarole]

A girl in a blue tunic and The girl in the red cloak, Mikhail Nesterov, 1904.

[madeofsadness-deactivated201106]

Josef Breitenbach, Nudist camp New Jersey ca. 1950

[literature-liv]

hands & shadows

— marcia lippman

[graceandgirlhood]

Emily Szabo

[allaboutmary]

A small tree shrine for Mary in the Irish countryside.

[slavicafire]

Piotr Stachiewicz (Polish, 1858 - 1938) - from his series Regina Caeli [Queen of Heavens]; Mary with a Spindle

[soircieres]

‘— a death-ridden woman, haunted by dreams.’

— Arthur Miller, adapted from The Crucible

[theoptia]

“The ice and the blue that was all around came into my veins. My heart beat wildly.”

— Anaïs Nin from Under a Glass Bell and Other Stories; “Birth”

[mournfulroses]

“We cannot approach her direct, so abstract, so cold, so / beautiful.”

— H.D., from Collected Poems: 1912-1944; “Helios,”

[theoptia]

Enthymesis (enthýmēsis / ἐνθύμησις): inner-passion, the emotional force driving meditation and reflection.

[janasojka]

Night Landscapes.

[thebluesthour]

“Today, it’s that same blue again, blue of redemption.”

— Charles Wright, “A Journal of the Year of the Ox” 

[thebluesthour]

“Strange sea of an intense blue, dangerous like love.”

— Enrique Vila-Matas, Dublinesque

[objetpetita]

Masculine Feminine, Jean-Luc Godard (1966)

[talestalesof]

“She is entirely in her closed eyes, and quite alone with her soul,”

— Paul Valéry, tr. by W.M. Stewart, Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 4: Dialogues (via weltenwellen)

[peashooter85]

Mother of pearl mounted English folding knife, circa 1830′s-1850′s

from Sofe Design Auctions