Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway. So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.
Pablo Picasso (via goodreadss)
Look not only with the eyes..
why is it always the woman who has to see past the beast in the man? why does she always have to clean his wounds, even after he has damaged her beyond repair? why is it always the man who is worthy of forgiveness for being a monster? I want to see the beast in the beauty. the half smile, half snarl. the unapologetic anger. I would like to see the man forgive the monster. to see her, blood and all, and love her anyway.
beauty and the beast | Caitlyn S. (via alonesomes)
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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun…. there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand…. nor look through the eyes of the dead…. nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
Walt Whitman (via feellng)
thanks Whitman!♡
The best way to know life is to love many things.
Vincent van Gogh (via goodreadss)
Many times..
Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt, circa 19th century.
Veit Rudolph Specklin (after Hans Holbein the Younger), Astronomical Chart of the Sun and Moon. 1534.
Excavation of the Sphinx, 1850s. Follow for more 1800s nostalgia.
WUTB..♡
Charles Dana Gibson-The Weaker Sex VII♡
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person,
Czeslaw Milosz, from “Ars Poetica?” (via theclassicsreader)