a paper moon

evagatio mentis

[softcoffeeandroses]

A princess viewing a painiting, mughal, circa 1630

[litverve]

"who is invisible enough to see you?"

Paul Celan, from Breathturn Into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry, trans. Pierre Joris

[catonhottinroof-deactivated2023]

Eilif Peterssen (1852 - 1928)

Kveld, Sele (Gedine on a Hillock), 1896

[thekimonogallery]

Looking out of Meigetsu-in temple, Kamakura, Japan明月院　鎌倉.   Photography by kiccyomu on ganref

[longing4angels]

The centre of me is always and eternally a terrible pain—a curious wild pain—a searching for something beyond what the world contains, something transfigured and infinite.

—Bertrand Russel in a 1916 letter to his lover

[modedamour]

[thirdity]

“I hear it said so often that today there are no pious men any longer. One could just as easily say that today there is no longer any music and no longer any blue sky. I believe that many pious men exist.”

— Hermann Hesse, Wandering

[apollonicheskoye]

"The Great Taking of the Veil" by Mikhail Nesterov, 1898.

[random-brushstrokes]

Paul Hey (German, 1867 - 1952) - Moonlit night

[pommegf]

early cherry blossoms in london

[witch-grrl]

“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”

— Franz Kafka  (via codyychristman)

[violentwavesofemotion]

“Have you seen any photos of her? An extraordinarily lonely face…”

— Simone de Beauvoir, on Virginia Woolf, from an interview c. May 1965 (via woolfdaily)

[thekimonogallery]

Stone statue at Hokoku-ji temple, Kamakura, Japan報国寺　鎌倉.  Photography by Buzz on ganref.  Thank you, Kumi Ito

[fravery]

John Ottis Adams (1851-1927) Dawn Of Night

[hipindie]

heaven

[callmemeursault]

Mark Cohen, Girls Hiding from Camera, 1972

[allthingseurope]

London