Poem of the day
Evening Angelus
by Joyce Sutphen
I have forgotten the words,
and therefore I shall not conceive
of a mysterious salvation, I shall
not become a tall lily and bloom
into blue and white. Then what
oracular event shall appear on
my doorstep? What announcement
shall crowd me to a corner,
...
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Design is thinking made visible.
Saul Bass
Comments about poets
Chelsea Thessalonika: “I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Ben Schmidt: If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll
Dallas Police Dept: Mr. Lewis Carroll Carpenter has been located and is safe.
Deborah Kuchler: “‘I don't think...’ then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”
-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Christopher: "In the end… We only regret the chances we didn’t take"
- Lewis Carroll
maxxmyrick: An Evening with Corcoran Holt at City Winery DC, Sunday, January 5th. Corcoran Holt Bass and Djembe, Stacy Dillard Tenor and Soprano Sax, Keyon Harrold Trumpet, ELEW Eric Lewis Piano and Carroll Dashiell III Drums....
Michael Taeckens: Lewis Carroll, diary entry, 1868
dead-writers: Nine feet high, and I have been the March Hare said Alice.
‘Why, SHE,’ said Alice.
‘Why, SHE,’ said Alice was. -Lewis Carroll
DrProfSprings: “Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”
— Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
rspacek: "Portmanteauing" (creating a new word by fusing two together) long preceded Lewis Carroll; "clash" and "flare" strike most readers as quite ordinary words, and not the combination of "clap" and "crash" (the former) and "flame" and "glare" (the latter).
Book Rarities: Vintage Alice's Adventures In Wonderland By Lewis Carroll 1952 H/b Book - S95
3StoneEntertainment: Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. ~Lewis Carroll
Flying Twigs: For any day and every day A rabbit and a quote from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll that ‘If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.’
And how true it is.
UberFacts: Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, wanted to marry an 11 year old girl named Alice when he was 31.
Makkine: Very depressed by this tweet largely because nobody will ever be better able to use syntax hackery and wordplay to demonstrate the limits of logic and the sociopolitical consequences thereof better than this guy. Lewis Carroll btfo
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Births on this day in history
- 12/09/1891 - Maksim Bahdanovič - Belarusian poet and critic (d. 1917)
- 12/09/1617 - Richard Lovelace - English poet (d. 1657)
- 12/09/1608 - John Milton - English poet and philosopher (d. 1674)
Deaths on this day in history
- 12/09/2014 - Jane Freilicher - American painter and poet (b. 1924)
- 12/09/2002 - Stan Rice - American painter and poet (b. 1942)
- 12/09/1964 - Edith Sitwell - English poet and critic (b. 1887)
- 12/09/1916 - Natsume Sōseki - Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
- 12/09/1544 - Teofilo Folengo - Italian poet (b. 1491)