🎨 Sir #NathanielDanceHolland, English painter, #DOTD 15 October 1811. #Art #Painting
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@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 Sir #NathanielDanceHolland, English painter, #DOTD 15 October 1811. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialGather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...
✒ #RobertHerrick, English poet, #DOTD 15 October 1674. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social✒️ Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak, known as #Faizi, poet and scholar of late medieval India, #DOTD 15 October 1595. #Poetry #Literature
@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.socialAll time top selling song @ 50 million!
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@jckaelin.bsky.social@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."
🎶 Maestro #LeonardBernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor, #DOTD 14 October 1990.
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon, it has such a sturdy constitution, that it is readily regarded as something natural even by its victims."
✒ #MarcelAymé, French author and playwright, #DOTD 14 October 1967. #Theatre #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/randal...
✒ #RandallJarrell, American poet and author, #DOTD 14 October 1965. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #AlbertDeVriendt, Flemish historical painter and etcher, #DOTD 14 October 1900. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;
Relive my languish, and restore the light."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/samuel...
✒ #SamuelDaniel, English poet, dramatist, and historian, #DOTD 14 October 1619. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Elegy on the Death of Lady Jane Grey": somegreymatter.com/thomas-chalo...
✒️ Sir #ThomasChaloner, English statesman and poet, #DOTD 14 October 1565. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"They won't be able to take away my painful feeling, if they don't completely take away my sense first."
✒️⚔️ #GarcilasoDeLaVega, Spanish poet and diplomat, #DOTD 14 October 1536, from wounds sustained in battle in France. #Poetry #Literature
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@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."
✒️ #StephenEAmbrose, American historian (Band of Brothers), #DOTD 13 October 2002. #History
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #ThomasAlexanderHarrison, American painter and educator, #DOTD 13 October 1930. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Let no more gods or exploiters be served
Let us learn rather to love one another."
✒ #FrancescFerreriGuàrdia, Spanish radical philosopher and academic, #DOTD 13 October 1909. #Philosophy
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive."
✒ #NicolasMalebranche, French French Oratorian Catholic priest and rationalist philosopher, #DOTD 13 October 1715. #Philosophy
