Unspoken rule of the head nod: Nod down to strangers and up to friends
I could be better but I'm considering becoming worse
“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
— The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
“in March I’ll be rested, caught up and human.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath vol 1: 1940-1956
Hero and Leander
— by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850)
— by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, Musée du Louvre
theres no thought out there that makes my heart ache more than the thought that someone in the ancient world looked up at the same moon that i look at every night and loved its silvery beauty as much as i