— Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “XLVI”

Hsüeh T’ao, "Gazing at Spring"

All his life, he had known not what it meant to yearn Newly, he learned to yearn； Thence, ceaselessly, he yearned.

Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum

Falling in love..

A Byzantine Gold Collier with Emeralds, Sapphires, Amethysts and Pearls, from a workshop in Constantinople (late 6th-7th Century AD).

BLACK SAILS | 1.06 - VI.

Unknown, Poetry Card, edo period

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Le repos des nymphes au retour de la chasse (also known as Diana Returning from the Hunt and Nymphs Reposing from the Chase), (Detail), (1745), by François Boucher (French, 1703 – 1770), oil on canvas, 37 cm × 52 cm (15 in × 20 in), Musée Cognacq-Jay