Quotebag: Found While Waiting and Bathing

(Dedicated to "Rapid" Oil Change, the United States Postal Service and my bathtub)

So mirrors will take into themselves

The pure smiling image of girls

As they test the morning, alone –

Or under the gleam of devoted candles.

And into their faces, one by one,

Later, just a reflection falls.

– Ranier Maria Rilke

Venus slipped away the dressing gown, and rose before the mirror in a flutter of frilled things. She was adorably tall and slender. Her neck and shoulders were so wonderfully drawn, and the little malicious breasts were full of the irritation of loveliness that can never be entirely comprehended, or ever enjoyed to the utmost.

– Aubrey Beardsley

Botticelli’s line is never purely arabesque, but implies in itself the development of the space and the movement of the contained volumes. In this way his vision seizes upon the ideal limits of the time in which the action is supposed to take place and from this arises an impression in his representation of the image as of indefinite duration of the said action, and in this way reality becomes dream and history myth.

– Roberto Salvini