@nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialYour absence, Sleep, languishingly lengthens,
And makes me feel more the pain that I endure.
Come, Sleep, make her doze off and make her less hard,
Come and abuse my pain with some sweet lie.
✒ #PontusDeTyard, French priest and poet, #DOTD 23 September 1605. #Poetry
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.socialHilary Mantel died on this day in 2022.
Too soon, too soon...
By way of tribute, here’s the brilliant opening of Wolf Hall. Read by me. Writing so poetic in parts that it deserves the label #poemsaloud #dotd #HilaryMantel
@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
⚾️ Remembering the great #YogiBerra, American #baseball player, coach, and manager, who #DOTD 22 September 2015.
Master of brain-bending witticisms: "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded." 😂
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons."
🎭 #GeorgeCScott #DOTD 22 September 1999. He declined the Best Actor Oscar 1971.
"Patton" Opening Speech: ▶️ youtu.be/PS5yfhPGaWE
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #BryanIngham, English artist, #DOTD 22 September 1997. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it."
🎶 #IrvingBerlin, Jewish-American composer and songwriter, #DOTD 22 September 1989.
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social✒ #AlainFournier, French soldier and author, #DOTD 22 September 1914, aged 27, fighting in WWI near Vaux-lès-Palameix.
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #AlessandroAllori, Italian Late Mannerist painter and director of the
Arazzeria Medicea , Florence's state-owned tapestry workshop, #DOTD 22 September 1607. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?"
✒ #Dōgen, Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, poet, and philosopher, #DOTD 22 September 1253. #Philosophy
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"A hundred grasses vie in beauty,
Confusion of butterflies, clamour of bees,
The clear day hurries the blossom to burst forth in the warmth."
✒ #OuyangXiu, Chinese historian, poet, and politician, #DOTD 22 September 1072. #Poetry #History #Politics
@couldbesoeasy.bsky.social„Mitgefühl ist die Grundlage der Moral.“
— Arthur Schopenhauer. #dotd
Viele verstehen dies in der Konsequenz überhaupt nicht.
Empathie lässt uns denken.
Stirbt sie, sind wir Egos ohne jegliche Moral. Wir verstehen dann Moral überhaupt nicht mehr.
Wir wissen dann nicht mehr, warum sie für
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