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Hans Steiner, Autumn Sun (1890)

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And her delicate hand in rings respire ancient myths. Entranced by her strange proximity, I peer beyond her veil, and see enchanted distances, and enchanted lands.

— Alexander Blok, The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse, transl by Kristen Lodge, Margo Shohl Rosen & Grigory Dashevsky, (2007)

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“My heart is like the autumn moon / perfectly bright (…)”

— Han Shan, from A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry. Ed. J.P. Seaton.

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Madison Julius Cawein, “A Dark Day”

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howling wolf figurine, Southern Siberia, c. 5th-3rd century BCE, wood with shell inlays

currently in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, Ohio, USA), accession no. 1986.26

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Richard Le Gallienne, “To A Mountain Spring”

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Angela Carter, from "Nights at the Circus," originally published in 1984

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“Shake thyself from the dust; and arise” ⚰️

Photography by Iulia Iepure

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-Anne Rice, Witching Hour

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Conkers ~ Jackie Morris

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Edward Gorey - Tarot

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Source

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Léo-Paul Robert (Swiss, 1851-1923) 

Robin, 1915

Oil on canvas

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Johan Laurentz Jensen

“A jay in a spruce”

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Edmund Dulac, Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes (detail)

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Natalia Noszczyńska illustration (@natalia.noszczynska.illu)

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Princess and the Pea (The Real Princess), illustration to the Princess and the Pea, Edmund Dulac