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[text ID: August of another summer, and / once again / I am drinking the sun / and the lilies again are spread / across the water.]

Dark summers are honeyed and sulky, full of pomegranates, thunderstorms, magnolias and un-kept promises. Cinematic and shadowy, you exist in a trance of melancholy, and feel passionately, though feign detachment. Pandora opens the box, and lightning fills the sky.

Wisława Szymborska, from Map: Collected and Last Poems; “Moment of Silence” (via soracities)

Seaman on the ‘Pommern’ enticing the ship’s cat up on of the shrouds, 1903

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Anders Beer Wilse - Fram under seil ¾ 1910

Unknown, Photograph of Northern Lights over Roald Amundsen’s ship Maud, 1918–1925

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Ursula K. Le Guin (via punlovsin)

— Éphraïm Mikhaël, from Poems; “Florimond,” written c. January 1879

Anselm Kiefer, Am Rhein, 1968-91, photograph on treated lead in a glazed steel frame, 95 1/8 x 51 15/16 in. (241.62 x 131.92 cm)

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