Keep a little fire burning

Dormition Church of the Optina Monastery, Saint Petersburg (idbronskiy)

〰️ “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all.” ~ Michelangelo | By Pierre Julien and other artists.

Criterion Collection

— Charles Baudelaire, from ‘Le Salon de 1859′ (via malglories)

西湖 (West Lake, Hangzhou, China) | by mlq4296

Nomizo Falls

— Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Olga Broumas & T. Begley, from “Psalm XVII,”

Greek god: Zeus.

Ghismonda with the Heart of Guiscardo (ca.1650, detail) Bernardino Mei 

Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden (via goodreadss)

Charles-Amable Lenoir — La jeune fille à la double flûte. detail. 1860-1926

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath (via adrasteiax)

— Heinrich Heine, tr. by Aaron Kramer, from “The Sun Irradiates the Sea,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Carmen Aguado, Duchesse de Montmorency, 1860, Franz Xaver Winterhalter 

— Anne Sexton, from a letter to Stanley Kunitz featured in A Self-Portrait In Letters (via writemeanna)

via dead-molchun

Tyrell crown, Alice + Olivia