"My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame."
Poems: mypoeticside.com/poets/henry-...
✒ #HenryConstable, English poet, #DOTD 9 October 1613. #Poetry #Literature
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@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame."
Poems: mypoeticside.com/poets/henry-...
✒ #HenryConstable, English poet, #DOTD 9 October 1613. #Poetry #Literature
@jckaelin.bsky.social( #JCKaelin here: One of my favorite, and most beloved, people in history : )
#OTD #TDIH #October8, 1895 The #EulmiIncident: #DOTD: #RIP #EmpressMyeongseong aka #QueenMin the assassinated #LastEmpressOfKorea.
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@onehitwondered.bsky.socialRemembering Minnesota’s very own Larry Verne, who #DOTD in 2013. In 1960, Verne earned US US #OneHitWonder honors when his satirical, comedic novelty “Mr. Custer” spent 10 weeks on the US #Billboard #Top40, including one week at the #1 spot! #LarryVerne #MrCuster #OneHitWondered #MusicSky
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social“I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.”
🎨 #RemediosVaro, Spanish surrealist artist, #DOTD 8 October 1963. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social✒ #FelixSalten, Austrian author and critic, #DOTD 8 October 1945. #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #AlexeiSavrasov, Russian lyrical landscape painter and academic, #DOTD 8 October 1897. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social“Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”
✒️ #HenryFielding, English novelist (Tom Jones), #DOTD 8 October 1754. #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #FilippoLippi, Italian Renaissance artist and Carmelite priest, #DOTD 8 October 1469. #Art #Painting
@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer."
📸 #IrvingPenn, American photographer, #DOTD 7 October 2009. #Art #Photography
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is."
✒ #AllanBloom, American philosopher and educator, #DOTD 7 October 1992. #Philosophy
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth."
Poem: poets.org/poet/radclyf...
✒ #RadclyffeHall, English author (trailblazing lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness) and poet, #DOTD 7 October 1943. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh." (On the Rocky Mountains)
✒ #IsabellaBird, English naturalist, historian and explorer, #DOTD 7 October 1904. #History #Travel
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
Poems: mypoeticside.com/poets/oliver...
✒ #OliverWendellHolmes Sr., American physician, author, and poet, #DOTD 7 October 1894. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Nevermore."
Poems: poets.org/poet/edgar-a...
✒️ #EdgarAllanPoe, American author, poet, and critic, considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre (The Murders in the Rue Morgue), #DOTD 7 October 1849, aged 40. #Poetry #Literature
