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"A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here" (Emily Dickinson)
🎨 Leon Spilliaert
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"For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn."
(Walter de La Mare)
🎨Félix Buhot
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"'The persistence of tradition never surprises me,' Ambrose went on after a pause. 'I could name many an English parish where such traditions as that girl had listened to in her childhood are still existent in occult but unabated vigour." (Arthur Machen)
#FaustianFriday
“Yea—for a dream.
Last night methought I saw
That maiden Saint who stands with lily in hand
In yonder shrine." (Tennyson)
🎨 Schiavoni (1841)
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"Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals" (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
🎨 Walter Schnackenberg
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“The world has always been the same -
An endless farce, an antic game,
A universal masquerade!” (Goethe)
🎨 AbigailLarson
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"Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades." (Isak Dinesen)
🎨 Hofer
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“Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask?" (Kierkegaard)
🎨 Eri Nakagawa
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“To hatch a crow, a black rainbow
Bent in emptiness
over emptiness
But flying” (Ted Hughes)
🎨 Teagan White
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