Crystallization of Amber Moments

La Stelle (The Stars) by Vittorio Zecchin (1878-1947) Via thebluelantern

We come spinning out of nothingness

Scattering stars like dust.

The stars form a circle

And in the center we dance.

— Rumi

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The Voice of Evil by Georges de Feure (1895)

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. — Charles Bukowski, Ham On Rye, 1982

Angel Above the City by Jaschik Álmos, 1918

Believers, look up – take courage.  The angels are nearer than you think. – Billy Graham

Pallas Athene by Franz von Struck

A day can press down all human things, and a day can raise them up.  But the gods embrace men of sense and abhor the evil. — Athena to Odysseus,Sophocles, Ajax

Daemon Love by Maximilian Pirner, 1893

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. — Judy Garland

The Dream by Ferdnand Hodler, 1897      

Events far-reaching enough to people all space, whose end is nonetheless tolled when one man dies, may cause us wonder. But something, or an infinite number of things, dies in every death, unless the universe is possessed of a memory, as the theosophists have supposed. — J. L. Borges, The Witness 

His Dream: He would bring her acorn cups and dew drenched anemones and tiny glow worms to be the stars in the pale gold of her hair. — The Dwarf’s Dream by Jessie M. King for The Birthday of the Infanta, by Oscar Wilde

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Flowers of the Riverside by Edward McKnight Kauffer

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Slim Woman - With a Cat painted by Geza Farago, 1913

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.  – Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1893

Le Mille e una Notta (One Thousand and One Nights) by Vittorio Zecchin, 1914

I MADE my song a coat 

Covered with embroideries 

Out of old mythologies

From heel to throat…

— William Butler Yeats, A Coat, 1916

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