the day's divinity

Nancy Willard, from “Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him”

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Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry dated 27 March 1922 featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920-1923

Dagger (Khanjar) | 19th century | Indian, Mughal | Met Museum

Georges Merle - The Sorceress (1887)

Winter in Andalusia,1880

‘Galatée’ by Charles Jalabert (French, 1819-1901)

Diane et Actéon by Jean-Léon Gérôme (19th Century)

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Words from light of love by Florence + the machine stitched onto fabric

two horses standing before an erupting volcano under a beautiful night sky with a forest illuminated by city lights laid out before them do these horses recognize the magnificent yet violent beauty in front of them or is this simply another day for them perhaps it is both as wild animals such as these know nothing but the constant bittersweetness of nature so perhaps to them all miracles of nature have the same wonder from an erupting volcano to a blooming flower to the split second life of an insect they are all products of the world that cradles horses and others in its loving yet murderous arms

Alexandre Cabanel. 1863. The Birth of Venus detail.

Hekate by Maximilian Pirner (1901)