Ulrica Hume 💙さんのイラストまとめ

to arrive anywhere you must leave something behind, but the trick is that by going forward you secretly enter a dimensionless place where the past and all its attendant memories intersect with newfound joy, and all is miraculously complete.

[Saints for Sale by Berenice Abbott]

What are men to rocks and mountains?

~Jane Austen

[Watching Swiss mountains with telescopes (1910)]

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

~Beatrix Potter

[Christmas card by Beatrix Potter (circa 1890)]

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

~Elaine Scarry

[A Breezy Day by Charles Courtney Curran (1887)]

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.

~Robert Walser

[Dawn in the Hills by Julian Onderdonk]

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.

~Vincent van Gogh

[The Sea Hath Its Pearls by William Henry Margetson (1897)]

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time—the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

~Carson McCullers

[Dama con l'unicorno by Barbara Longhi]

[Aphrodite (Siren of the Sea) by Edward Sheriff Curtis (ca. 1920)]

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

~William Butler Yeats / thanks @wanderingsag

I am rooted, but I flow.

~Virginia Woolf

[Annabel Lee by Edmund Dulac]