This morning in the fields.
She flung her long brown hair from side to side. She was insane; she was miraculous.
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Mughal dagger with scabbard, intricately engraved surfaces are set with gems and colored glass finely cut with floral forms. Watered steel blade. (1605–27)
Hans Memling —Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli). c.1470. detail
Lucas Cranach the Elder — Portrait of Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous. 1509. detail
“I understand that nobody understands me, but I can’t be someone I’m not.”— Audrey Tautou
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“I know him- he carries in his eyes the prophecy of the seas. (…) I know him - he named me flood.”— Adonis, from Songs of Mihyar of Damascus; He Carries in His Eyes. Trans. Khaled Mattawa.
Lijmen/Het Been {Robbe De Hert, 2000}