Maria Sibylla Merian - Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum Et Amplificatum - 1678 - Via Beinecke Library

As you well know, you are something of an enchantress. And I am still under your spell. In earlier times you would probably have been either worshipped or hanged — or perhaps both, in that order.

Paul Brooks, quoted in ‘Anne Sexton: A Biography’ by Diane Wood Middlebrook

Clearest image of Venus, taken by Japan's Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter.

Edit after Eugène Leroux and Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (Drie heksen uit Shakespeares Macbeth) (Rijksmuseum) (Ed. Lic.: CC BY-NC 3.0)

© Nona Limmen {via Instagram}

We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula Le Guin

January 27, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

Chapelle de l'abbaye de Beaulieu located in Haute-Marne, in France

And Art, better than black opium […] an intoxication lulling our scourged hearts to sleep.

— STANISLAS DE GUAITA ⚜️ Rosa Mystica, (1885)

Sergey Solomko (1867–1928) - Walpurgis Night