William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Canephores, 1852
Beatrix Potter on Flickr.
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"There are beings - and artifacts - against which we batter our intelligence raw, and in the end make peace with reality only by saying, “It was an apparition, a thing of beauty and horror."
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The Claw of the Conciliator
(Gene Wolfe)
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Karl Alexander Wilke (1879 Leipzig - 1954 Wien), illustration for “Die Muskete” magazine, 1906
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The Spirit of Oiwa
Tōkyō, 1847 - 1848
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer)
The Ashmolean Museum
The Poet and the Siren, Gustave Moreau
Things my poverty prevented me from doing: spending the rest of my life studying, thinking, and writing about Moreau’s poets, their relation to the physical and spiritual worlds, their hermaphroditism, their identification with his saints and martyrs, their relationship to Moreau’s Apollo, and Moreau’s Sappho as the compliment and opposite of his Salome. I will forgive the vagaries of fate in exactly never.
The Focus of Life: The Mutterings of Aãos
The lady sleeps! Oh, may her sleep,
Which is enduring, so be deep!From The blue poetry book, edited by Andrew Lang, illustrated by Lancelot Speed and H. J. Ford. London, New York, Bombay, and Calcutta, 1912.
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"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via risenonlytofall)
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Thomas Watson Ball, cover for Gilian the Dreamer by Neil Munroe (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899).
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