Poem of the day
The Mango-Tree
by Charles Kingsley
He wiled me through the furzy croft;
He wiled me down the sandy lane.
He told his boy's love, soft and oft,
Until I told him mine again.
We married, and we sailed the main;
A soldier, and a soldier's wife.
We marched through many a burning plain;
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Life is too short to be sensible.
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Comments about poets
JuniPerus: The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
~Ezra Pound
Our Hidden History: Oh he's a winner....
"He also helped free Hungarian Cardinal József Mindszenty, American expatriate poet Ezra Pound, former Congo President Moise Tshombe and represented the Dalai Lama and Tibet."
Sylvia Dahlby: "To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold--brothers who know now they are truly brothers." ~Archibald MacLeish
Fabian montes: “In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood—
A lord of nature weeping to a tree.” – Theodore Roethke, 1963
Scott Beauchamp: After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy; The Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia, 1933 by T.S. Eliot
QUOTE: If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you. -T.S. Eliot
Jerry Whitney: "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
By T.S. Eliot
Amee Vanderpool: Sen. Schumer says he will turn down McConnnell's request for Democrats to protect the filibuster as part of the 50-50 Senate: "Leader McConnell's proposal is unacceptable, and it won't be accepted."
Fred Voss: "In this home… We do second chances. We do real. We do mistakes. We do I’m sorrys. We do loud really well. We do hugs. We do together best of all.” – T.S. Eliot
名言で覚える英語♩: Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.T. S. Eliot
Hegelian Prince Marino: Then, I hear it everywhere. I hear it in Wilde and Chesterton and Kipling and Conrad and pre-ULYSSES Joyce and O. Henry and Fitzgerald and Mansfield and de la Mare. And I hear it in Housman's poems, in Yeats most strongly, in the early (better?) T.S. Eliot, and in Woolf's essays.
クリミナル・マインド格言プラス(bot): "Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow."(T.S. Eliot)(S2E11)
i hate sapnap 123: hi uh !! it’s eliot , if anyone’s seeing what’s going on with the account rn please don’t pay attention !! i won’t say what’s happening but please don’t pay any attention to it , i love you all so much ! <3
i hate sapnap 123: if u ever made out with a ginger you shouldn’t be afraid of what’s in the covid vaccine
/ eliot
Mary Allen: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T. S. Eliot
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Births on this day in history
- 01/23/1930 - Derek Walcott - Saint Lucian poet and playwright
Deaths on this day in history
- 01/23/2018 - Nicanor Parra - Chilean poet (b. 1914)
- 01/23/1984 - Muin Bseiso - Palestinian-Egyptian poet and critic (b. 1926)
- 01/23/1893 - José Zorrilla - Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
- 01/23/1866 - Thomas Love Peacock - English author and poet (b. 1785)