The eyes of all people...

Marble that looks wet. This jaw-dropping detail comes from “The Nymph” (La Ninfa) by Italian sculptor Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1823–1880)where solid stone is carved to mimic water rippling around her bare feet. The full sculpture was executed in 1858 for Palazzo Facchi in Brescia

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a diary entry featured in Rapture & Melancholy; The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Margaret Atwood, from "Wilderness Tips," originally published in September 1991

Gertrud Kolmar, from Dark Soliloquy: The Selected Poems of Gertrud Kolmar; "Rose In The Night,"

Nostos: The Return (1989)

New York 1911

Ernst Stöhr

The Moon. Art by Brooke Penrose, from the Tarot of The Crystal World.

Frank Frazetta

[ translation: ISEUT IS THE QUEEN AND SHE APPEARS TO LIVE IN JOY. ISEUT IS THE QUEEN AND SHE LIVES A LIFE OF SADNESS. ]

Ph. Zhong Lin

Art by Serafino Macchiati (1861-1916)

— Lydia Havens, from “September & Nothing Else,” Survive Like Water

Diving swans captured by Viktor Lyagushkin 

Lady Edna Clarke Hall - circa 1895

— Heinrich Heine, from “My songs are filled with poison” (tr. by Hal Draper)

the sweetest taboo (1986)