Rhinemaidens from Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods 1911 illustrated by Arthur Rackham

lucyphermann: William Blake, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun William Blake was a visionary, even hallucinatory English painter who lived at the dawn of the technological era. Unlike most artists of his era he did not draw from life, claiming that the visions that appeared before him were clearer and more vivid than his perception of external reality. You [...]

knivesandpompoms: The Blasphemer William Blake ca.1800

seriously mean looking Cuda

desasteres: The Last Judgment (Right Panel, Detail). Hans Memling. 1471.

Albrecht Dürer -  Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

I am Basil Elton, keeper of the North Point light that my father and grandfather kept before me. Far from the shore stands the gray lighthouse, above sunken slimy rocks that are seen when the tide is low, but unseen when the tide is high. Past that beacon for a century have swept the majestic [...]

An address given to the graduating class of the United States Military Academy at West Point on March 6, 1973.

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone, makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. Do not [...]

by Ernest Dowson
from Decorations, (1899)