@chriswriter.bsky.socialBETTE DAVIS #DOTD 1989
Superb actress in a long, diverse & distinguished career, so many memorable roles, loved her in Mr. Skeffington too. compelling screen presence!
-All About Eve -What Ever Happened to Baby Jane -Jezebel
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte-Now Voyager
The Letter - Of Human Bondage
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"If I am playing any #music at all, it is #jazz music."
🥁 Remembering #GingerBaker, legendary English drummer, who #DOTD 6 October 2019.
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
🌹🎭 Hollywood legend #BetteDavis #DOTD 6 October 1989. #Film
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something.'"
Poems: poets.org/poet/elizabe...
✒ #ElizabethBishop, American poet, #DOTD 6 October 1979. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever."
Poems: poetryarchive.org/poet/alfred-...
✒ Alfred, Lord #Tennyson, English poet and British Poet Laureate, #DOTD 6 October 1892. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further."
🇮🇪 #CharlesStewartParnell, Irish nationalist politician who served as an MP in the UK from 1875 to 1891, #DOTD 6 October 1891.
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Traveller, let your step be light,
So that sleep these eyes may close,
For poor Scarron, till to-night,
Ne'er was able e'en to doze."
✒ #PaulScarron, French poet, dramatist, and novelist, #DOTD 6 October 1660. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialAnd wilt thou leave me thus
And have no more pity
Of him that loveth thee?
Hélas, thy cruelty!
And wilt thou leave me thus?
Say nay, say nay!
Poems: poetryarchive.org/poet/thomas-...
✒️ Sir #ThomasWyatt, English politician and poet, #DOTD 6 October 1542. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #HansVonBartels, German painter and educator, #DOTD 5 October 1913. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🌸✒ #KaibaraEkken, Japanese botanist and Neo-Confucianist philosopher, #DOTD 5 October 1714. #Philosophy
@dumb-belles.bsky.socialGraham Chapman #dotd 4 October 1989
aka Dr. not-the-messiah, my imaginary mentor/therapist. tbh he was never very sympathetic when it came to my menstrual cycle, but he does smoke a pipe like Freud.
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"The joy that isn't shared dies young."
Poems: poets.org/poet/anne-se...
✒ #AnneSexton, American poet and author, #DOTD 4 October 1974. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses."
🎨 Dutch master painter #Rembrandt #DOTD 4 October 1669. #Art #Painting
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