an accidental oxymoron

I'm Danielle. i'm not exactly sure what to write or how to write it. But, I love words, music, poetry, and art and i'm obsessed with quotes. Enjoy this hodgepodge of stuff, or not. Mostly i'm a happy person and i'm just trying to figure it all out.

demonagerie:

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, - BSB Cod.icon. 340, f. 33r. Beschreibung der historischen und allegorischen Personen der acht Inventionen zum Ringelrennen in den Aufzügen gehalten 1596 anläßlich der Taufe der Prinzessin Elisabeth von Hessen, 1600.

book-aesthete:

Edgar Allan Poe Portfolio (Signed Limited Edition)
Bernie Wrightson, Illust.

Christopher Enterprises, 1976. Limited edition, (12” x 16.5”), 8 full-color plates in pale yellow illustrated folder. A near fine copy.

Legendary horror artist Bernie Wrightson turns his eye to Edgar Allan Poe in this beautifully illustrated limited edition portfolio of eight (8) full-color plates measuring 12” x 16.5”, published in 1976 by Christopher Enterprises. One of 2000 copies produced, this being number 688, SIGNED by Wrightson on the inside portfolio cover. With a small bend to upper right corner of each print and the just the slightest of handling wear but otherwise in overall excellent condition, bright and clean throughout. A rare limited edition portfolio touched by the wonderfully strange mind of the legendary horror illustrator.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

—Carson McCullers (via bbook)

(Source: blua, via bbook)

i really want to have a picnic surrounded by a forest of green foliage…. yeah, that would be nice.