"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them."
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✒ #DionBoucicault, Irish-American actor and playwright, #DOTD 18 September 1890. #Theatre #Literature
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@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them."
www.irishtimes.com/life-and-sty...
✒ #DionBoucicault, Irish-American actor and playwright, #DOTD 18 September 1890. #Theatre #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
✒️ #WilliamHazlitt, English critic and essayist, #DOTD 18 September 1830. #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialMy lyre I tune, my voice I raise,
But with my numbers mix my sighs;
And whilst I sing Euphelia’s praise,
I fix my soul on Cloe’s eyes.
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/matthe...
✒️ #MatthewPrior, English poet and diplomat, #DOTD 18 September 1721. #Poetry #Literature
@onehitwondered.bsky.socialRemembering Big Easy vocalist/drummer Jessie Hill, who #DOTD in 1996. Jessie earned US #OneHitWonder honors in 1960 when his pioneering New Orleans R&B classic “Ooh Poo Pah Doo - Part 1” spent 4 weeks on the US #Billboard #Top40, peaking at #28. #JessieHill #OohPooPahDoo #OneHitWondered #MusicSky
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets."
✒️ Sir #KarlPopper, Austrian-British political philosopher, #DOTD 17 September 1994. #Politics #Philosophy
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with each individual.”
✒️ #CliveBell, English art critic, #DOTD 17 September 1964. #Art #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #CeciliaBeaux, American portrait painter, #DOTD 17 September 1942. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social⚒️ #EdmoniaLewis, "Wildfire", American sculptor of mixed #AfricanAmerican and #NativeAmerican race, #DOTD 17 September 1907. #Art #Sculpture
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/walter...
✒ #WalterSavageLandor, English author and poet, #DOTD 17 September 1864. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall."
Poems: allpoetry.com/Tobias-Smollett
✒ #TobiasSmollett, Scottish author and poet, #DOTD 17 September 1771. #Poetry #Literature
@onehitwondered.bsky.socialA day to remember 🇬🇧 singer/songwriter & guitarist Marc Bolan, who #DOTD in 1977. In the early morning, Gloria Jones was driving Marc Bolan home from a London club when their Mini hit a tree near Barnes Common. Marc Bolan was killed instantly
Marc Bolan
September 30, 1947 ~ September 16, 1977
@philiphalpenny75.bsky.socialA full year without Bob. #DOTD in 2025.
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve."
✒️ #EdwardAlbee, American playwright (Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?), #DOTD 16 September 2016. #Theatre #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialPoems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/michae...
✒ #MichaelDonaghy, American poet and author who lived in London from 1985, #DOTD 16 September 2004. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/richar...
✒ #RichardBrautigan, American novelist, poet, and short story writer, #DOTD 16 September 1984. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next."
✒ #JeanPiaget, Swiss psychologist and philosopher, #DOTD 16 September 1980. #Philosophy #Psychology
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