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"A Sonnet is a moment's monument,— Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour."
✒ #DanteGabrielRossetti, English #PreRaphaelite poet and painter, was born #onthisday 12 May 1828. #Art #Painting #Poetry
"Mad, bad and dangerous to know."
📖 #OnThisDay in the #History of #Literature 9 May 1816, Lady #CarolineLamb published her #Gothic novel GLENARVON, which contained thinly veiled portraits of her husband, #WilliamLamb (later Prime Minister) and her famous lover, #LordByron.
"Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them."
✒ #MauriceSendak, American author and illustrator, creator of "Where The Wild Things Are", passed away #onthisday 8 May 2012. #Literature
"Nobility, fortune, rank, position! How proud they make a man feel!"
🎶 #OnThisDay in #Music #History 1 May 1786, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's #opera THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna, directed by #Mozart himself.
#StanleyKubrick's #Napoleon – the greatest movie never made?
The director was preparing orgies and battles that would be like ‘vast lethal ballets’ for what he said would be his best #film. #Filmmaking
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📖🏔 #OnThisDay in the #History of #Literature 26 April 1336, the Italian Renaissance poet #Petrarch famously climbed Mount Ventoux in Provence. At the peak he gazed out over the land, contemplated his life, his love for Laura, and read passages from Saint Augustine. #Poetry
📖 #OnThisDay in the #History of #Literature 25 April 1719, #DanielDefoe published ROBINSON CRUSOE, the first English novel. Authorship was originally credited to the protagonist, leading early readers to believe it was an historical travelogue of true events.
"The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves."
#WillemdeKooning, Dutch-American painter, was born #onthisday 24 April 1904 #Art #Painting
"I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it. I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see." 🎨 French painter #GustavMoreau passed away #onthisday 18 April 1898. #Art #Painting