[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, aged 25, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated March 10, 1958)

[shisasan]

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (1934)

[ofallingstar]

Nostos: The Return (1989)

[miamaimania]

“Entwined” at New Orleans Botanical Garden ☀ Lovers frozen in stone while plants plot their gentle takeover

[die-rosastrasse]

Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet

French, 1791-1834

Female nude, 1831 (detail)

[nitratediva]

From The Blue Bird (1918). I just published a blog post about this dreamy, little-known silent masterpiece.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Paul Merwart (1855-1902) "On a Swing" (1881) Oil on mahogany wood

[enchantedbook]

'The Wild Swans' illustrated by Elenore Plaisted Abbott, 1922

[enchantedbook]

"The White Swans and Other Stories" by Hans Christian Andersen illustrated by Eleanor Abbot,1922.

[aletiel]

Riyoko Ikeda, Orpheus no Mado.

[artssie]

The Happy Warrior (1884) by George Frederic Watts

[henk-heijmans]

A young girl lying on a statue of a blacksmith, Bismarck National Monument, Berlin, 1961 - by Floris M. Neusüss (1937 - 2020), German

[catchymemes]

[errorschacha]

"Do it scared" is out. "Do it in a fugue so dense as to barely be penetrable by uncertainty" is in.

[zvyozdochka]

Polar bear on board a Soviet icebreaker, 1970.

[thoughtkick]

“Some of us aren’t meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make it our own place.”

— Elizabeth Lowell

[havingapoemwithyou]

Advent by Nate Klug