VALENTINE.

The Times of the Day, Alphonse Maria Mucha

Louise Glück, from “Marathon” in The Triumph of Achilles

April 4th, 2025 — Files from Manhattan.

Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry dated 1 July 1918, from The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol.I: 1915-1919

Monet planted the water lilies before he painted them. Monet organized his property at Giverny as though it were a huge painting. Thanks to a small army of gardeners, he diverted a river, planted water lilies, exotic flowers, weeping willows, bamboo trees, and willows. He seeded the pond and added enclosures with white chickens, ducks, and pheasants. Nature, recomposed by the artist, began to resemble his art. "My finest masterpiece," he later said, "is my garden."

Mary Stuart as Widow of William II Bartholomeus van der Helst, c. 1652

— Hélène Cixous  from “The Love of the Wolf” (via soracities)

Angela Carter, from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; “The Erl-King,”

Le Bonheur (Happiness, 1965): Directed by Agnès Varda

Étienne Adolphe Piot (1831–1910), Jeune Femme (detail)

—Haymitch Abernathy, from Sunrise on the Reaping (2025) by Suzanne Collins

A Cloud and Landscape Study by Moonlight by Johan Christian Dahl