L'Antico Regime

«...Non temiamo il destino, Non ci tireremo indietro. Prima di essere schiuma saremo indomabili onde.» old europe, poetry, quotes, photography, art

[mournfulroses]

Angela Carter, from The Collected Stories; "The Lady of the House of Love,"

[troutlawyer]

Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post

[metamorphesque]

Water Lilies — Japanese Bridge, Claude Monet (1923)   

At the age of eighty-two Monet discovered that he had a cataract. The deterioration of his eyesight was horrifying to the artist, who wrote, 'I realized with terror that I could see nothing with my right eye .. a specialist... told me that I had a cataract and that the other eye was also slightly affected. It's in vain that they tell me it's not serious, that after the operation I will see as before, I'm very disturbed and anxious,' In 1923 he was operated on three times to try and correct his right eye. The brilliant fiery reds and yellows of Water Lilies - Japanese Bridge, 1923 are indicative of the impaired sight of the artist, seeing his bridge within a reduced palette. Yet it is the most evocative sum of color and light and composition, creating on overall startlingly emotive effect.

[shadyshahad]

i know i touch the deepest part of your soul and it terrifies you.

[metamorphesque]

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

[mournfulroses]

Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova; "More About This Summer,"

[applebugg]

Three young barn owls standing in the stone quatrefoil of Christ Church, Fulmodeston.

[esthers-wine]

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

—Virginia Woolf.

[natureaestheticdreams]

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[happyheidi]

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[morningstxrs]

[shakespearesdaughters]

[shuttered-gallery]

"Eos" by Emile Corsi, 1860

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Don’t interpret, don’t give things more significance than they themselves take; don’t look at a sorrow from the outside, don’t appraise it and give it a big name: the “great sorrow”…, you don’t really know but that your heart has grown with it, that this great weariness is the growth of the heart,—patience, patience and do not judge in suffering, never judge; so long as it is upon one, one has no measure for it, one compares and exaggerates.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Hanna Wolff written c. August 1912

[goodreadss]

“To be alone is the only real revolution. To accept that you are alone is the greatest transformation that can happen to you.”

— Osho (via minuty)

[origanumi]