The world turns differently when Fire loves Water.

I declare That later on, Even in an age unlike our own, Someone will remember who we are.

[thegirlintheblackdress]

Joan of Arc in prayer, by Albert Lynch

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Léon-Marie-Joseph Billardet (French, 1818 - 1862) Abélard instruisant Héloïse, Detail, 1847 Musée d'Arts de Nantes

[primulaceas]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath; entry no. 102

[gacougnol]

Alfa Castaldi (Italian, 1926–1995)

Nudo di Marina à la Klimt

Milano, 1980

[weltenwellen]

Leila Chatti, from “Tea”

[metamorphesque]

No one has taken anything away, Marina Tsvetaeva (translated by Elaine Feinstein)

[bodies-made-of-art]

An Idyll of Marriage by Henri Pierre Picou

[aqua-regia009]

The Orphan, c.1885 - oil on canvas. — August Friedrich Schenck (German/French, 1828-1901)

[fordarkmornings]

Henrietta Rae (British, 1859-1928) 

Psyche before the Throne of Venus, 1894

[aqua-regia009]

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

[the-evil-clergyman]

Les Oréades by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1902)

[metamorphesque]

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

[balkanparamo]

Auguste Charles Mengin - Sappho - 1877.

[aqua-regia009]

The Young Martyr, 1855 - oil on canvas. — Paul Delaroche (French, 1797-1856) aqua-regia009 art edits

[artschoolglasses]

Fortune, Peter Paul Rubens, 1636-38

[fatifer]

“— I never felt my loneliness so clearly.”

— Frédéric Chopin, from a letter to Jan Matuszyński c. December 1837

[tendermimi]

— collecting mulberries on expired 35mm film