Poem of the day
In Memory Of John And Robert Ware
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
No mystic charm, no mortal art,
Can bid our loved companions stay;
The bands that clasp them to our heart
Snap in death's frost and fall apart;
Like shadows fading with the day,
They pass away.
The young are stricken in their pride,
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Jeseph Joubert
Comments about poets
Teewhy Nyema: And Happy Birthday to Jerome Beatty Jr (d. 2002), Kirk Douglas, Colin McCool (d. 1986), James Jesus Angleton (d. 1987), James Rainwater (d. 1986), Joyce Redman (d. 2012), V. Dakshinamoorthy (d. 2013) and William Lipscomb (d. 2011).
∞-Homo(A,B): In case you were wondering how incredibly big my IQ is I’m listening to Death Metal about James Joyce right now
Hennie Kriel: b. 10 December 1941: FIONNULA FLANAGAN, Irish actress (Brotherhood; Paddywhackery; How The West Was Won; The Guard; Transamerica; The Others; Lost; Waking Ned; James Joyce’s Women; Star Trek)
Sand_pi: Love loves to love love. James Joyce
LOUDRE AsOneFamiLOVE4ever
Tony AnthonyJ Jordan:
RTÉ: What James Joyce's bones and house tell us about Irish culture,
travel ireland mag: "You get a decent do at the Brazen Head." James Joyce
Matthew R "Who Owns An Asteroid?" Francis: I just described "Dead Astronauts" as "if James Joyce snorted a powdered China Miéville novel"
Patrick @ Fighting in the Great Skeleton War 2019: Oppress literature majors by reminding them that James Joyce had a very well documented Fart Fetish
sebastian castillo: dreamt i hiked down a frozen mountain. incredibly dangerous. lost all of my belongings. had to swim across a lake in ice water. took a train home, sopping. train dropped me off at the entrance of the zoo, where i recited the last paragraph of "the dead" by james joyce to pigeons
Stu.: As a teenager, Damien Hirst was arrested for shoplifting James Joyce novels from Waterstone's. It was a poor trait of the artist as a young man.
Living Sarcasm: Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...
Aleister Crowley
Riley: Aleister Crowley, Rosaleen Norton, Harry Hay, and the Gay Movement (Part I) – Archives | Veterans Today
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Harry Hay created NAMBLA and was also a FREEMASON
funckarma: "Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion." - Aleister Crowley
Not Gary Webb: People know the name Aleister Crowley to be synonymous with Satanism.
On further reading, much becomes clear...
Edward Kelley, John Dee, Israel 1648, Sabbatai Zevi, the mystical system of Thelema, Choronzon (the Devil), 333,
Kabbalah etc.
Have faith only in their imminent end.
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Births on this day in history
- 12/10/1925 - Carolyn Kizer - American poet and academic (d. 2014)
- 12/10/1907 - Rumer Godden - English author and poet (d. 1998)
- 12/10/1891 - Nelly Sachs - German-Swedish poet and playwright
- 12/10/1870 - Pierre Louÿs - Belgian-French author and poet (d. 1925)
- 12/10/1830 - Emily Dickinson - American poet (d. 1886)
- 12/10/1821 - Nikolay Nekrasov - Russian poet and critic (d. 1877)
- 12/10/1811 - Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer - American poet
- 12/10/1783 - María Bibiana Benítez - Puerto Rican poet and playwright (d. 1873)
Deaths on this day in history
- 12/10/2005 - Eugene McCarthy - American poet
- 12/10/1972 - Mark Van Doren - American poet
- 12/10/1956 - David Shimoni - Russian-Israeli poet and translator (b. 1891)