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"I simply love that tinge of Botticellian pink."
- Vladimir Nabokov
Botticelli's Goddesses
"Sophia in ourselves is the Mercy of God, the tenderness which by infinitely mysterious power of pardon turns the darkness of our sins into the light of God's love."
- Thomas Merton
Be parted? Never! Kneeling I confess
Love and devotion, faithful unto death.
Tormented I endure, resigned, your blows:
Yours, if I die, will be the blood that flows.”
— Nizami
"What is the universe without each sunrise? That’s how we judge our gods, not on their math but their poetry."
- Amahl Farouk ("Legion")
The Surface of Jupiter
- Isis-Aphrodite (Greek, Etruscan & Roman)
- Clay icon Goddess figure from Hacilar VI, circa 5400 BCE, Western Turkey
- Green Tara, 13th century, Tibet
- Goddess Idol Yalangash, South Turkmenia, 4000 BCE
"If for example, a mother looks into mirror and sees her body, not as her own self, but as a raw stuff of art which can be manipulated as she pleases, then the "mirror, mirror on the wall" attitude develops in her daughter."
"The Sleeping Earth & Wakening Moon", Evelyn de Morgan
This massive tomcat stared entering my building & meowing right in front of my door to feed him. Guess he knows where a lady who cannot resist a beautiful tomcat lives. I called him Sylvester after the Sylvester from cartoon.