Let your devil come inside, let your soul fly up to the sky. Your dreams were a lie, you're not worth a life.
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
— Thomas Paine, Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal
Edit after Frederic Edwin Church (Late Afternoon Sun Over a Stream) (Smithsonian) (Ed. Lic.: CC BY-NC 3.0)
“I wanted everything; I wanted to be enormous and overwhelming, yawning and expansive like the light.”
—
Gwendolyn MacEwen, from “Mermaids & Ikons: A Greek Summer,”
Breaks my heart that I have to tell you this but you don't need to be fixed, my dear I know the beauty in your world is long gone and dancing with clouds is like wishing for rain.
“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
— Khalil Gibran
Andrei Rublev (1966), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Zeta Ophiuchi, Runaway Star
"Seraphim with folded arms".Sketch for the painting of St. Vladimir's Cathedral in Kyiv (1885/1893)
Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926)
I was disaster. I was sorrow. I was war. I was death... And If you are broken inside, I'm totally dead, too close, too much.