Both Death And Life

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

Cathédrale et décombres nocturnes by Gustave Fraipont (Belgian-born French, 1849--1923) 

Details from Bacchus and Ariadne

Brožík, Woman with a child

Oil on linen , 20 3/4 x 18 in. 53 x 45.5 cm.

Words from sidelines by phoebe bridgers

women with weapons in paintings

Francesco Lojacono - "Nelumbium" (1897)

Saeed Jones, "Aretha Franklin Hears an Echo While Singing "Save Me", Alive at the End of the World

Kris Kuksi: Tribulation (2015)

Jan van Eyck - Madonna of Chancellor Rolin. Detail. 1420 - 1440

Sappho, fragment 26 - If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (tr. by Anne Carson)

Jean-Paul Sinibaldi - "Salammbô (detail)" (1885)

Carl Blechen - "Gothic Church Ruins" (1826)

James Ensor (1888)

The Nun, c.1866 by William Quiller Orchardson (Scottish, 1832-1910)