Cormorant fishing is an old tradition in which fishermen use trained cormorants to catch fish.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

Homeric Hymn to Hermes (tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White)

post #1; post #2; post #4; post #5

Alexander Brantingham Simpson

Søren Kierkegaard, Diaries 1813-1855

Mary Oliver, from "Such Singing in the Wild Branches"

sandro botticelli, dante and beatrice in stars

— Devin Kelly, Ordinary Plots: Jenny George’s “Reprieve”

joy sullivan

Walking across the frozen Lake Reschensee to the church tower of the drowned village of Graun, Italy (via here) 

from 'bird by bird: some instructions on writing and life,' anne lamott, pub. 1994.

Georges Rochegrosse, Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (The Knight of the Flowers) (detail) (1894), oil on canvas

Kim Addonizio, from "Onset"