luceat lux vestra

+ styliani. she/they. greek. infj

[mournfulroses]

Samuel Beckett, from The Complete Dramatic Works; “Endgame,”

[sselenae]

Titian, Flora, circa 1515 (details)

[weltenwellen]

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

[lhzthepoet]

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ig: lhzspeaks

[achasma]

Venus and Cupid (detail) by Sebastiano Ricci, c. 1700.

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Mary with the child and singing angels, (detail) 1477. Sandro Botticelli

[kafk-a]

Jack Gilbert

[detailedart]

David (1501-1504), by Michelangelo. Heart edit.

[die-rosastrasse]

Sketches by Gaston Bussière

[aqua-regia009]

Mary Magdalene as a hermit (Details), 1833 - Francesco Hayez

[evahiriahir-deactivated20220112]

[flowerytale]

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, chapter V. 

[galina]

oh london, dusted with snow

[weltenwellen]

Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

[thewildetyme]

“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”

— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart.

[brunetteg1rl]

“sweet and soft as summer, darlings, maple trees in bloom and grass green in the sunny places—”

peter s. kroyer // willard metcalf // daniel garber // emily dickinson, in a letter to susan gilbert

[pixel-planetarium]

Raining at Versailles