Dancers By Franz Von Stuck (1896)

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude [ID in alt text]

Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

i was re-watching ‘maya angelou: still i rise’ & lost my mind & heart during this reading of ‘the mask’ so i decided to record + upload for anyone who would also like to be brought to tears. 

Wendy Cope, "From June to December: Summer Villanelle"

Caroline M. Mar, from "Intelligible"

Georgia O'Keeffe and one of her Chows, posted today by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Azar du Marest, from Charles Baudelaire’s Harmonie du Soir, 1899.