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“Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.”

✒ #LeonidAndreyev, Russian author and playwright, #DOTD 12 September 1919. #Theatre #Literature

✒️ #FitzHughLudlow, American author (The Hasheesh Eater) and explorer, #DOTD 12 September 1870, aged 34. #Literature

Poems: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...

✒ #ClémentMarot, French Renaissance poet, #DOTD 12 September 1544. #Poetry #Literature

"Whoever becomes the head of the National Theatre finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there."

🎭 Remembering Sir #PeterHall, English #stage, #film and #opera director (RSC, National #Theatre), #DOTD 11 September 2017.

"Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us."

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jim-ca...

✒ #JimCarroll, American author "The Basketball Diaries", poet, and musician, #DOTD 11 September 2009. #Poetry #Literature

🎨 Remembering #BelkisAyón, Cuban painter and lithographer, who #DOTD 11 September 1999. #Art #Painting

Poem: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hannah...

✒️ #HannahWeiner, American experimental poet, #DOTD 11 September 1997. #Poetry #Literature

"Each of us must do whatever we have a passion to do."

🌹🎭 Remembering #JessicaTandy, British-American #film and #theatre actress, who #DOTD 11 September 1994.

"It was all very well to be ambitious, but ambition should not kill the nice qualities in you."

✒ #NoelStreatfeild, English author, #DOTD 11 September 1986. #Literature

"There was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth."

✒ #EleanorDark, Australian author, #DOTD 11 September 1985. #Literature

" #Poetry, beautiful, sincere, great poetry has always been the great compensation that life has given us to make us, after all suffering, better, more beautiful and more meaningful."

✒ #GeorgiMarkov, Bulgarian dissident author and playwright, #DOTD 11 September 1978. #Theatre

"Some praise the Lord for Light,
The living spark;
I thank God for the Night
The healing dark."

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...

✒ #RobertWService, Scottish-Canadian poet and author, #DOTD 11 September 1958. #Poetry #Literature

"No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician."

✒ #JamesHarrington, English philosopher and author, #DOTD 11 September 1677. #Philosophy #Literature #Politics