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acqua-di-fiori:

Constrained ball is a drawing aid. Attached to the pen, this device helps to draw straight lines without using a ruler. designed by Giha Woo.

acqua-di-fiori:

Constrained ball is a drawing aid. Attached to the pen, this device helps to draw straight lines without using a ruler. designed by Giha Woo.

(via galava)

pakizah:

Yashu, Princess of Gwalior, being dressed for dinner by her lady-in-waiting. 
India
1984

pakizah:

Yashu, Princess of Gwalior, being dressed for dinner by her lady-in-waiting. 

India

1984


As once the winged energy of delight
carried you over childhood’s dark abysses,
now beyond your own life build the great
arch of unimagined bridges.

Wonders happen if we can succeed
in passing through the harshest danger;
but only in a bright and purely granted
achievement can we realize the wonder.

To work with Things in the indescribable
relationship is not too hard for us;
the pattern grows more intricate and subtle,
and being swept along is not enough.

Take your practiced powers and stretch them out
until they span the chasm between two
contradictions … For the god
wants to know himself in you.

—Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
(Ahead of All Parting, ed. and translated by Steven Mitchell)

(Source: fourteenth, via randombeautysls)

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”
― Charles Simic