Jeanette Winterson, from The Stone Gods
Its no coincidence that a whole lot of old goddesses are snake goddesses. Also the snake shedding its skin is linked with women shedding their uterine linings.
Dacia Maraini, tr. by Tim Vode, from “Dreams of Clytemnestra,” wr. c. 1994
basilica della santissima annunziata in florence !!!
Loretta Young in The Crusades (1935)
“Small delights – a clear winter sunset through the natural iron grillwork of black trees, a street lamp shining through ice-encased branches, blue sky glittering, and sun on ice-crusted snow. Loveliness, loveliness.”
— Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
Anne Carson | An Oresteia | Elektra by Sophokles
“— the incense of those slumbering roses —”
— Edgar Allan Poe, from To Helen, 1848.
It takes two by Steve McCurry
“First Love, Berlin”, 2014.
Ph. Maxime Ballesteros
Count Dracula (1970) dir. Jesus Franco
Hedy Lamarr in Ziegfeld Girl, 1941
Les dites cariatides (1984) dir. Agnès Varda, poem by Charles Baudelaire
Marina Tsvetaeva, from "No one has taken anything away", Selected Poems
candle holders Made with broken & discarded items by Gab Bois
Ted Hughes, 1966
'...[Assia] Wevill told friends the poet's lovemaking was so ferocious that 'in bed, he smells like a butcher'.'