Thoughts on { Flirt | Victor Hugo / Milan Kundera / Ivan Turgenev / Marjane Satrapi / Charlotte Brontë
Leo Gestel, The flirtation (An Gestel and the violonist Dirk Gootjes), 1910 “Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without...
1860s
The Sundew | A Poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837-1909
Henry Scott Tuke, August Blue, 1893-4 A Little marsh-plant, yellow green,And pricked at lip with tender red.Tread close, and either...
Crumbling is not an instant’s Act | A poem by Emily Dickinson, 1860
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1961 Crumbling is not an instant's ActA fundamental pauseDilapidation's processesAre organized Decays — 'Tis first a Cobweb...
Painters [*/ ) Victorine Meurent | Τhe favorite model of Édouard Manet, 1862-1873
Édouard Manet, The Guitar Player, 1866 Édouard Manet, The Railway, 1873 Édouard Manet, Victorine in the Costume of a Matador,...
Rain in Summer | A poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1866
Asano Takeji, Drizzling Rain in Ukimido, 1953 . How Beautiful is the rain! After the dust and heat, In the...
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! | Emily Dickinson, 1861
Emily Dickinson "Wild nights" manuscript . Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our...
One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted | Emily Dickinson, 1830 – 1886
Grandma Moses, Halloween, 1955 . One need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house;...
Days [ ) Εxist | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1864
Antonio Mora . "I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least...
A Particular tenderness | George Sand to Gustave Flaubert, 1866
George Sand (1804 – 1876) ...
Flowers | Paintings by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1836-1904
Henri Fantin-Latour, Lilas, 1872 Henri Fantin-Latour, Roses, 1871 Henri Fantin-Latour, Roses, 1894 Henri Fantin-Latour, Still Life, 1866 Henri Fantin-Latour, Roses,...