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i know that greatness lies in you but remember from here on in

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Svetlana Zakharova’s hands, La Fille Du Pharaon

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Love 65, Bo Widerberg (1965)

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She was graceful, with a grace that rested in the blood,

Octavio Paz, from Convergences: Essays; “Remember That Voice,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Maya Plisetskaya in Bolshoi’s Swan Lake

Maya would’ve turned 95 today (born November 20, 1925)

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Looking at her, I felt that divine and terrible trembling that a perfect statue inspires, a dazzle of radiant marble, a long-loved picture of infinite harmony.

Renée Vivien, from A Woman Appeared to Me, as quoted in Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney (via dearestvita)

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Étoile (1989) | dir. Peter Del Monte

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Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (via philosophybits)

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“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.”

— Haruki Murakami, from Norwegian Wood

(via lunamonchtuna)

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New York, Showgirl Rosemary Williams drinking coffee, 1949

© Photo by Stanley Kubrick

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Vikki Dougan for Life Magazine (1957)

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Under Suspicion (2000), dir. Stephen Hopkins

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Nutcracker Fantasy, 1979, Takeo Nakamura

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Fashion designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev and his models. Photo by Aleksandr Steshanov (1965)

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Ulyana Lopatkina as Odile in Swan Lake (Mariinsky Ballet)

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The Red Shoes (1948) dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger