On The Shore By Fidus

Night is not less wonderful than the day . . . it is lit by the splendor of the stars and it reveals things to us that the day does not know. Night is closer than day to the mystery of all beginning. The abyss is open only by night: day spreads a veil over it.

Nicolas Berdyaev, "The Middle Ages"

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Armored breastplate crafted by Filippo Negroli (fl.1532-51), made of metal. Currently part of the collection at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy.

The Alnwick Poison Garden is pretty much what you’d think it is: a garden full of plants that can kill you (among many other things). Some of the plants are so dangerous that they have to be kept behind bars. [x]

Sergey Solomko (1867–1928) - Walpurgis Night

“Witches, with hearts like a wild song,”

— Charles Guérin, tr. by David Paley, from Poems; “The Bridal Night,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

La Lune, c.1920

Theodor Kittelsen

Charles Baudelaire, from The Flowers of Evil: Poems; "A Former Life,"

Chelsea Wolfe