Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely

Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945)

— Jane Hirshfield

Edward Gorey Book covers for a series of anthologies published in the 70s. See more of Gorey’s book covers here.

Charles Baudelaire, “Mist And Rain”

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

Erwin Blumenfeld - Vogue Beauty Book (Feb. 1939)

Virginia Woolf, letter to Vita Sackville-West

Mermaid amulet in silver from Naples, Italy; before 1880. The amulet represents a twin tailed siren figure; they were suspended in the window or worn by women and used as jingles

Acrylics on prepared paper

fairies wearing stonehart jewelry’s “floating butterfly wings” .

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— by majara__

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Anna Akhmatova, from a poem titled "White Flock," featured in An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets

Dungeon Lord ❦

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Lake And Maple," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

—Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to Theo, his brother (Amsterdam, 15 July 1877)