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a place where the direct light does not burn me

[steveyockey]

survival mechanism they don’t emphasize enough is memorizing a poem. you memorize a poem you have a little lift raft for a variety of situations

[imelancholia]

Le Gai Savoir (Jean-Luc Godard, 1969)

[artssie]

Mary Magdalene in Meditation (1623) by Jusepe de Ribera

[cruellheaven]

“They want me to be one thing. And I’m not one thing.”

— Alice Notley, from an interview conducted c. October 2017 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[toiich]

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959), dir. Alain Resnais

[7pleiades7]

Tre Grazie (The Three Graces), (Detail), (1813-1816), by Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757 – 1822), marble, h: 1.8 m (71.6 in), Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

[04k96]

[tridentandtales]

Roman fragment of a bronze statue, head of a young man

1st century CE

Museum of Art and History of the City of Geneva C 2104

[throatoftheworld]

Light Comes From Within by Dongni Hou, 2021

[in-frame]

“—she was part of his body and part of his mind, they belonged to each other, both wanderers, both fugitives, cast in the same mould.”

— Daphné du Maurier, Frenchman’s Creek (via antigonick)

[mournfulroses]

Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Kimon Friar, from a poem featured in "Erotica: Love Poems,"

[liebesfraulein]

“Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part of me and of my soul, as I of them? Is not the love of these deep in my heart with a pure passion?”

— Lord Byron, from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage; Canto III.  

[crucifiedlovers]

“The alchemists have a saying: ‘Tertium non datur’. The third is not given. That is, the transformation from one element into another, from waste matter into best gold is a mystery, not a formula. No one can predict what will form out of the tensions of opposites and effect a healing change between them. And so it is with the mind that moves from its prison to a free and vast plain without any movement at all. Something new has entered the process. We can only guess.”

— Jeanette Winterson, ‘Orion’ from The World and Other Places: Stories

[lin-manuel]

You need a big god Big enough to hold your love You need a big god Big enough to fill you up

[tridentandtales]

Greek bead depicting a man playing the lyra

5th century BCE

British Museum 1868,0110.424

[7pleiades7]

Cloître de Saint-Sauveur (Aix Cathedral cloister) in Aix-en-Provence, France. It is a serene Romanesque cloister dating back to the 12th century.

A remarkable detail from the late-12th-century Romanesque cloister of Saint-Sauveur Cathedral in Aix-en-Provence, France. This twisted corner support turns solid stone into something almost fluid, showing how Romanesque carving could be both structural and deeply expressive.

[banksalec]