@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"And when that heav'nly guest those mortal walls
Had left, it nought but sweetly sleeping was
In her fair eyes, what folly dying calls:
Death fair did seem to be in her fair face."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-s...
✒ #MarySidney, English poet, #DOTD 25 September 1621. #Poetry
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Hail, then, ye Kisses! that can best assuage
The pangs of love, and soften all its rage!
Ye balmy Kisses! that from roses sprung;
Roses! on which the lips of Venus hung."
✒ #JohannesSecundus, Dutch author and poet, #DOTD 25 September 1536. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
✒️ #EdwardSaid, Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist #DOTD 24 September 2003.
@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"What a pity clocks don't realize the interesting work they do in making #history, as they go on ticking out moments which never before have been and never will be again!"
✒ #AliceMurielWilliamson, Americamn-born English author, #DOTD 24 September 1933. #Literature
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@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #JohnKeyseSherwin, English engraver and painter, #DOTD 24 September 1790. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Overt evil is not as bad as evil in the guise of good."
✒ #VincenzodaFilicaja, Italian poet, author, and politician #DOTD 24 September 1707. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Someone might object, "But you do not express yourself like Cicero". What of it? I am not Cicero. But I think I express my own self."
✒️ Angelo #Poliziano, #ItalianRenaissance humanist scholar, #DOTD 24 September 1494.
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@onehitwondered.bsky.socialRemembering Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, who #DOTD in 2019. He didn’t really earn US #OneHitWonder honors, but he helped the Grateful Dead earn theirs... While Jerry Garcia wrote the music for “Touch of Grey,” Robert Hunter supplied the lyrics. #RobertHunter #OneHitWondered
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@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!” (Armadale)
✒️ #WilkieCollins, English author (The Moonstone) and playwright, #DOTD 23 September 1889. #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialPoem: allpoetry.com/Robert-Dodsley
✒ #RobertDodsley, English poet and playwright, #DOTD 23 September 1764. #Poetry #Theatre #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #WillemPieterszBuytewech, Dutch Golden Age painter and etcher, #DOTD 23 September 1624. #Art #Painting
