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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
But, we are our own devils;
we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
~ Faust ~
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Darkness and Wonder
Peter W. Brooke Painting
The more a thing is perfect,
the more it feels
pleasure and pain.
Into the eternal darkness,
into fire and into ice...
The Divine Comedy: The Inferno
Dante Alighieri
© The moment of destruction
by Ori Gersht
I want to know
you moved and breathed
in the same world with me.
...And so, I don't want
to repeat my innocence.
I want the pleasure of losing it again.
~ This Side of Paradise ~
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jonė Reed Photography
...Showing how beauty is born
Or what we otherwise call a tear.
~ Odysseus Elytis ~
Six and one regrets for heaven
A point of harmony,
art works by Heather Offord
I would define, in brief,
the poetry of words
as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle
🎨 Heather Offord
Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth;
and the angels were so angry that they flung me out...
~ Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
ⓒ Margaret Lansink
You're not sorry to go, of course.
With people like us
our home is where we are not...
No one person in the world
is necessary to you or to me.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
🎨 Stiliana Alexieva
Michael Sole
Every person must choose how much truth he can stand. - Friedrich Nietzsche
🎨 Behind, Aykut Aydoğdu