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‘Quote of the Day’: from ‘blue rolling waves’, a great poem
“We never really slept,
just buried clocks
in the sanctuary
of night
every time I moved
you moved with me,
winged eyelashes
on your cheek returns a kiss”
- lines of ‘Belonging’ by Eileen Carney Hulme @strokingtheair
@just_me_dhw That’s really interesting - and sent me looking some more: Matisse was nodding to Cézanne (shawl, nose and pinchedness again). What a lineage: Paul, Henri, David …
‘Quote of the Day’: a poem
“When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.”
- opening verse of ‘When We Two Parted’ by George Gordon Byron
‘Winner, winner, chicken dinner’! Getting ‘commis of the day’ - when there’s just two of you - is still a result, right?
‘Quote of the Day’: root issues
“This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
- ‘A Christmas Carol’, Charles Dickens
Proud to know you Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature - it’s your 5th Birthday today! #NottsLit5.
(Here’s an example of @NottmCityOfLit ‘Building a Better World with Words’ and celebrating the work of @WildingGeorgina, @cleoasabre, @McLoughlinC and @ty_healy) https://t.co/P9fcG647YK
@adambcqx I wonder if these “odd, exotic fish” are like the flying one that put in an appearance two days ago ...
@Jill_Treseder Here is a later one of the Duchess, again painted by László