The Aegean Sea (detail) By Frederic Edwin Church (c. 1877)

The Sixteenth Of September, 1956 René Magritte

Susan Howe, The Quarry, New Directions, New York, NY, 2015, pp. 205-206

Sadder than a single star that sets at twilight in a land of reeds, Sydney Long, 1899

“Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.”

— Diane Ackerman, “Diffraction (for Carl Sagan)” (via misswallflower)

Mekheski - Moon People, 1915

William H. Hays- Crescent Coast (detail)

Ralph Fleck (German, 1951), Stapel 27/VII [Stack 27/VII], 2013. Oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm.

"Cynthia" was a mannequin created in 1932 by Lester Gaba. She became famous and well-liked to society; she received numerous invitations and a large amount of fan mail. When she fell from a chair and shattered, her death was reported by the press as if she were a real person. 

Burn the bridges behind, so you can never go back.