Credit…Clark Hodgin for The New York Times

stamp of a leopard seal. australian antarctic territory, issued 1973.

Octavio Paz, ‘The House of Glances’ (selected lines), A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)

Marie Howe, from “Memorial”, What the Living Do

(via Pin on Orcas)

Some illustrations from ‘An Introduction to Astronomy’ by Rev. John Davis (1868).

A collection of Moroccan doors

Domenichino, The Maiden and the Unicorn, 1602 // Anton Robert Leinweber, Dragon Resting Its Head On The Lap Of A Woman, 1912

Cat selling fish at the market.  Detail from a 19th century Japanese woodblock print.

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/117088/

Kahlil Gibran, Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal