ray bradbury was right: "September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason" etc
“A merely beautiful object gives us pleasure but perhaps little more; it is unlikely to exhilarate in the same way as the Sublime. When we look at a beautiful statue, piece of furniture, face or flower, we probably feel a satisfaction that everything is perfectly as it should be, and unquestionably in the right place. There is a sort of appropriation that happens – we might wish to possess the thing in some way, to line it up on a shelf, to display it for guests or for ourselves to marvel at. There is also, in most beautiful things, a lingering sense of transience, of finitude. A flower will die, the chair will break, and that beautiful person will wither and pass. We might say that beauty in its most striking forms seems to ache; it is often tinged with the sadness of a fleeting moment that will never occur again. The Sublime, on the other hand, seems to appropriate us, and its relationship to death is more explicit. We are beholding something frightening – kept safe by that all-important distance – which, if circumstances were different, might well be an agent of destruction.”
— Derren Brown, A Book of Secrets: Finding Solace in a Stubborn World (via luxe-pauvre)
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
ur honor it was just a feminine urge
kamillahanapova
céline gittens photographed backstage preparing to perform as odette in swan lake by lachlan monaghan
“Beyond myself / somewhere / I wait for my arrival.”
— Octavio Paz, from “The Balcony”, The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987, translated by Eliot Weinberger
Hands of German composer Carl Orff with his score for Antigone —1955. Photographed by Herbert List.
Federico García Lorca, from "Blood Wedding", Three Plays: Blood Wedding. Yerma, The Hous of Bernarda Alba (tr. Michael Dewell & Carmen Zapata) [ID in ALT]
Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I: 1940 - 1956 — Edward Cohen, c. 11th September 1950
Dominique Swain & Jeremy Irons first pictured at the screen test in 1995 and then at the premiere in 1997
Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems
Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems