sweetness doesn’t often touch my face

Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Lenore Mayhew and William Mcnaughton, from Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems

The Daryal canyon (1862) by Ivan Aivazovsky

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The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (also known as The Earthly Paradise with the Fall of Adam and Eve), (Detail), (c. 1615), by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 – 1640) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (Dutch, 1568 –1625), oil on panel, 74.3 cm (29.2 in) x 114.7 cm (45.1 in), Mauritshuis, The Hague

Switzerland. - Author: Hot-Brilliant-1656

Illustrated London Almanack - Vol. 19, 1863 - via Internet Archive

Hieronymus Bosch. Visions of the Hereafter - right panel detail

Vladimir Nabokov, from letter to Vera Nabokov wr. c. July 1923, featured in Letters to Véra

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Dr. and Mrs. J.G. Holland written c. November 1858

Stained glass window at the Séneca Hotel location: Judería Quarter, Córdoba, Spain

Streets of Rome

Willem de Jong - Boslandschap met beek in Limburg, 1895-1918

Nicolas de Largillière (French, baptised 1656-1746, b. Paris, France, d. Ibid) - Elizabeth Throckmorton, Canoness of the Order of the Dames Augustines Anglaises (detail), 1729, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

Clarice Lispector’s law school graduation by the University of Rio de Janeiro, 1943.

Dolgiye Mountains, Russia by Arseny Kashkarov