Mythology of Blue

• 2013-05-20

  Max Ernst, Stolen Mirror (via brettkingery)

  Source: brettkingery

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  They tried to prove,
  through enterprise and art,
  that a journey’s end exists
  at the outset, as a darkened lamp
  that tumbles back through
  all the stages of its building
  into a dream of light.

  — From Joshua Edwards’ Imperial Nostalgias (via vispoetica)

  Source: invisiblestories

• 2013-05-19

  Arthur Rimbaud · Paul Verlaine

  J.-K. Huysmans · Villiers de l’Isle-Adam

  Stéphane Mallarmé · Pierre Louÿs

  Robert de Montesquiou · André Gide

  *Selection of portraits of French writers by Félix Vallotton, from Le Livre des masques by Remy de Gourmont. +

  Source: le-plus-beau-des-mensonges

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  The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing generated by this in writing.

  -Karl Ove Knausgaard, “A Death in the Family” (via writteninsentences)

  Source: writteninsentences

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  Saul Leiter, New York, [detail], 1950s

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  Heinrich Hoffmann, Marlborough Struwwelpeter, 1844  + 

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  I shall not finish my poem.

  What I have written is so sweet

  The flies are beginning to torment me.

  -Hafez 

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  Saul Leiter, Shirt, 1948

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  The purpose of poetry is to remind us
  how difficult it is to remain just one person.

  -Czesław Miłosz

• 2013-05-18

  

  Athanasius Kircher, The San Macuto obelisk, which today stands before the Pantheon in Rome, from Romani Collegii Societatus Jesu musaeum celeberrimum: cujus magnum antiquariae rei, statuarum, imaginum, picturarumque partem ex legato Alphonsi Donini (1678) +