To Live In This World You Must Be Able To Do Three Things: To Love What Is Mortal; To Hold It Against

Gustav Klimt, Judith I detail, 1901

Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt, circa 19th century.

Excavation of the Sphinx, 1850s. Follow for more 1800s nostalgia.

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Evening dress (detail), 1925-28

From the Cincinnati Art Museum via Art Hopper

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..

Veit Rudolph Specklin (after Hans Holbein the Younger), Astronomical Chart of the Sun and Moon. 1534.

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Quédate conmigo hoy, vive conmigo un día y una noche y te mostraré el origen de todos los poemas. Tendrás entonces todo cuanto de grande hay en la tierra y en el sol y nada tomarás ya de segunda o tercera mano, ni mirarás más por los ojos de los muertos, ni te nutrirás con el espectro de los libros. Tampoco contemplarás el mundo con mis ojos ni tocarás las cosas con mis manos. Aprenderás a escuchar en todas direcciones y dejarás que la esencia del Universo se filtre por tu ser.

— Walt Whitman, Fragmento de ‘Canto a mí mismo’

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (via jaded-mandarin)

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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