[apocryphics]

Willa Cather, in a letter to Zoë Akins, November 21, 1932

[apocryphics]

[the-dauphine]

“The most precious thing is vitality – not in any sinister Lawrentian sense, but just the will + energy + appetite to do what one wants to do + not to be ‘sunk’ by disappointments. Aristotle is right: happiness is not to be aimed at; it is a by-product of activity aimed at.”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947—1963  (via sartreuse)

[trial-of-gilles-de-rais]

1946 Portraits at Howard University

[catscatscatss]

This cat chilling in the rose garden in Florence, Italy

(Source)

[apocryphics]

Linda Gregg

[lionfloss]

Reenagross Park, Ireland

[knightofleo]

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe for VOGUE magazine in “The Last Sitting” California, June, 1962. Photo by Bert Stern.

[platinumrest]

it took 7 bus trips to get all my books to my studio

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

postcard c1910

I shall pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore I can do, or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now, let me not defer it or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

[simena]

Füsun Ürkün - Uğur Böceği

[nervebynerve]

“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed, as William Blake said. The same thing can happen when we’re around young children or adults who have unlearned those habits of shutting the world out.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin 

[theinternetarchive]

'two women asleep in a punt under the willows,' oil on canvas, 55.9 x 68.6 cm; john singer sargent, american, 1887.

[voguely]

[door]

sign at Hinewai Reserve in Aotearoa

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Bruno Bernard, 1946.