Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here

Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.

Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.

Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.

Such characters in colour dim I mark'd
Over a portal's lofty arch inscrib'd:
Whereat I thus: Master, these words import.

Dante’s Divine Comedy

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Folsom Street Fair

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Look Upon Thy Death

What! art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?
Turn thee, Benvolio! look upon thy death. 

(William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet)

Danae Ayala

(Googled)

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The Bull of Bendylaw

The Bull of Bendylaw

The black bull bellowed before the sea.

The sea, till that day orderly,

Hove up against Bendylaw.

The queen in the mulberry arbor stared

Stiff as a queen on a playing card.

The king fingered his beard.

A blue sea, four horny bull-feet,

A bull-snouted sea that wouldn't stay put,

Bucked at the garden gate.

Along box-lined walks in the florid sun

Toward the rowdy bellow and back again

The lords and ladies ran...

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The great bronze gate began to crack,

The sea broke in at every crack,

Pellmell, blueblack.

The bull surged up, the bull surged down,

Not to be stayed by a daisy chain

Nor by any learned man.

O the king's tidy acre is under the sea,

And the royal rose in the bull's belly,

And the bull on the king's highway.

Sylvia Plath

 Foto's Andrey RaZOOMovksy
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Tiger, Tiger

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Tyger Tyger burning bright

In the forest of the night

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry

(William Blake)

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Foto: Cellina von Mannstein

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