Art By John Waterhouse (1909) - “Gather Ye Rosebuds.”

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) || Purgatory, canto II (Mendelbaum's translation)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

And Phaethon, as he inhaled the air, burning and scorching as a furnace blast, and saw destruction on the flaming world, and his great chariot wreathed in quenchless fires, was suddenly unable to endure the heat, the smoke and cinders, and he swooned away.

Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 2

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Cecil Beaton at the Ambassador Hotel in New York, February 1956.

Duomo di Siena, Siena, Toscana, Italia | Christie Lanzilotti

There’s no happy ending with me.

The Fall (2006) dir. Tarsem Singh

“The Duet” (1883) (detail) by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929).

Self Reflected, Greg Dunn / Hannibal 1.02 Amuse-Bouche