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‘Quote of the Day’: meanwhile ...

“But since the affairs of men rest still incertain,
Let’s reason with the worst that may befall”

- William Shakespeare, ‘Julius Caeser’

@BrophyLevey Kate, seeing your tweet has prompted me to take down this book (1976). It begins, excellently, with the sentence: “Middle-class England in the 1870s was probably the most inhibiting and philistine environment a great artist could be born into”.

‘Quote of the Day’: from the ‘Tree of Life’

“How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry! Which their keepers call
A lightning before death…”

- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
📷 Chapel of the Rosary, Vence

‘Quote of the Day’: a poem

“No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main ...”

- John Donne, the opening lines of his MEDITATION XVII
‘Devotions upon Emergent Occasions’
📷 cartoon by André-Philippe Côté

‘Quote of the Day’: today, not citing but cating

“I and Pangur Ban my cat,
'Tis a like task we are at:
Hunting mice is his delight,
Hunting words I sit all night”

- ‘Pangur Bán’, anonymous(e) 9th century poem and the craft of translation: https://t.co/YVa767VLqt

#animalbond