@nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialThe Nobel Prize in #Literature 1960 was awarded to Saint-John Perse "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time."
✒️ #SaintJohnPerse, French diplomat and poet, #DOTD 20 September 1975. #Poetry
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."
Poems: allpoetry.com/Giorgos-Seferis
✒ #GiorgosSeferis, Greek poet, diplomat and Nobel Laureate 1963, #DOTD 20 September 1971. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"#Music begins where the possibilities of language end."
🎶 #JeanSibelius, Finnish composer, #DOTD 20 September 1957. #ClassicalMusic
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #MaxSlevogt, German Impressionist painter, #DOTD 20 September 1932. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social“Books have their pride too – when they are lent out they don't return.”
Poems: allpoetry.com/Theodor-Fontane
✒ #TheodorFontane, German author and poet, #DOTD 20 September 1898. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social“I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.”
✒️ #JacobGrimm, German philologist, folklorist, and co-editor with his brother Wilhelm Grimm of "Grimm's Fairy Tales", #DOTD 20 September 1863. #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day."
✒️ #LuciusCary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer, #DOTD 20 September 1643, killed fighting for the Royalists at the First Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War. #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social⚒ #VeitStoss, German sculptor, mostly working with wood, #DOTD 20 September 1533. #Art #Sculpture
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialA Celebration of Martha Holmes' Photography: artsandculture.google.com/story/a-cele...
📸 #MarthaHolmes, pioneering American photographer, #DOTD 19 September 2006. #Art #Photography
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
✒ #ItaloCalvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist, #DOTD 19 September 1985. #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"#History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought."
✒ #ÉtienneGilson, French historian and philosopher, #DOTD 19 September 1978. #History #Philosophy
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #ZinaidaSerebriakova, Russian painter, #DOTD 19 September 1967. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #MichaelAncher, Danish painter, #DOTD 19 September 1927. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion."
✒ #MasaokaShiki, Japanese poet, author, and critic, #DOTD 19 September 1902. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #JanWeenix, Dutch painter, #DOTD 19 September 1719. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Pluto, bid Rabelais welcome to thy shore,
That thou, who art the king of woe and pain,
Whose subjects never learned to laugh before,
May boast a laugher in thy grim domain." [Epitaph for Rabelais]
✒ #JeanAntoinedeBaïf, French poet and Renaissance humanist, #DOTD 19 September 1589. #Poetry
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