Bellezza è destino

— Juliette Drouet, from a letter to Victor Hugo written c. April 1838

Lamu Dhow Race, Kenya

— Saul Bellow, Herzog

Dieric Bouts, The Ascension of the Elect (detail), c. 1470

— Nikos Kavvadias, excerpt of Fata Morgana 

Mandy Aftel, Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume

Venice.

— Ernest Hemingway, from “For Whom The Bell Tolls,” written c. 1940

The photo was taken by photographer Claude Azoulay in Paris in 1961, when she was sitting in a cafe on Boulevard Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

— Sara Pujol Russell, from “Thinking Late Afternoon”, translated from Spanish by Noël Valis (via finita–la–commedia)

Photographed by Josefine Seifert for Cecilie Bahnsen ‘Encore’ Collection.

— Pentti Saarikoski, tr. by Herbert Lomas, from Contemporary Finnish Poetry: “A Fortunate Time,”

9/7/1959- Milan, Italy: Millionaire Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis, with opera star Maria Meneghini Callas outside the LaScala Opera House here

— Delmira Agustini, from “The Intruder”, translated by Alejandro Cáceres