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Ivan Aivazovsky

Details of waves  

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Masao Yamamoto

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a chapterbook: *came with a stitched in ribbon bookmark, had a cloth spine, had those rough edged finished pages, or came with a map*

8 year old me: i am a 500 year old librarian and this is the most valuable book in my collection. i rescued it myself from a castle as it burned to the ground. *gingerly runs my little grubby hands down its spine and gazes wistfully out of the school bus window* i am the keeper of all civilization’s knowledge

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David Álvarez

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Last night's hypersky #cloudgazing #sunset #hypersky #canon750d https://www.instagram.com/p/BsXpCgoBQE_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hhh9bzvx6r16

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The Sound of Lines in Blue / D-12.Dec.2018 42x28cm pigment ink on Gampi paper 林孝彦 Takahiko Hayashi 2018　

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“I am always asking myself, how do we live. How do we persevere, with all these forces (even our own brains) trying to destroy us? My answer is only, that we do, we do live, we go forward with our broken hearts and our troubled bodies and we do our best to kneel down to the mystery of the world. We make art and rekindle myths and know that what continues of us, after all of this over, might just be our best.”

— Ada Limón, in conversation with Ruben Quesada for Chicago Review of Books

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View of İstanbul by Félix Ziem, 1850 (detail)

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quite possibly one of the dreamiest sunsets I’ve ever witnessed 

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Christmas socks. Enough said. #blueqsocks #christmaspresents https://www.instagram.com/p/BsCA4Gdh0gz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19wglgc05ipna

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“She makes you believe that magic exists on planet Earth because she is magical, from her voice to her presence to the way she moves,” says actress Blake Lively, Welch’s close friend. “The way she tells a story with every part of herself – really, she is unlike anyone I have ever seen. Onstage, there is such a ferocity that comes out in the way she communicates, and in person, there is such delicacy. It’s amazing how she can be both these things simultaneously.” - Florence Welch photographed by Nicole Nodland for Billboard (October 2018) [ x ]

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“Regenerative experiences: Plunge into the sea. The sun. An old city. Silence.”

— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 (via wraithlings)

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“[..] Language is not, as we are led to suppose by the dictionary, the invention of academicians or philologists. Rather, it has been evolved through time, through a long time, by peasants, by fisherman, by hunters, by riders. It did not come from the libraries; it came from the fields, from the sea, from rivers, from night, from the dawn. Thus, we have in language the fact (and this seems obvious to me) that words began, in a sense, as magic. (from earlier in the chapter) Therefore, when speaking of poetry we may say that poetry [..] is not trying to take a set of logical coins and work them into magic. Rather it is bringing language back to its original source.”

— Jorge Luis Borges; This Craft of Verse; ‘Thought and Poetry’ (pg 80 & 81)

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CORNFLOWER. Philipp Otto Runge1777 - 1810. Paper collage laid on paper.

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Rocks at Genetin-sur-Creuse Armand Guillaumin - circa 1900