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"Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more ... to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big."

Kate Greenaway was born #OTD in 1846.

Works by Kate Greenaway at PG:
https://t.co/q8d6Z0Z6hg

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

William Blake was born #OTD in 1757.

Books by William Blake at PG:
https://t.co/FOiBbrHz3N

"Une occasion manquée se retrouve, tandis qu'on ne revient jamais d'une démarche précipitée."
Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782)

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos died #OTD in 1803.

Books by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos at PG:
https://t.co/CrQikztHFy

"Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it."

William Blake died #OTD in 1827.

Books by William Blake at PG:
https://t.co/SG9zRZtJxl

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

Ernest Hemingway died #OTD in 1961.

Books by Ernest Hemingway at PG:
https://t.co/hoPUYRtgyP

Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register #OTD in 1667.

Paradise Lost at PG:
https://t.co/kq4zVUFIv5

Below, illustrations by G. Doré, W. Blake, H. Fuseli via @wikipedia

"And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd
Upon the sightless couriers of the air."
Macbeth (1623)

English playwright, poet and actor William Shakespeare was baptised #OTD in 1564.

Books by Shakespeare at PG:
https://t.co/ReH2Iplbrq

"That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."

English dramatist Aphra Behn died #OTD in 1689.

Books by Aphra Behn at PG:
https://t.co/4G8m5HMQIQ

English poet William Wordsworth was born #OTD in 1770. He was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

Books by Wordsworth @ PG
https://t.co/diZ406KjpL

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. "
Jane Eyre (1847)

English author Charlotte Brontë died #OTD in 1855.

Books by Charlotte Brontë at PG:
https://t.co/ujVR7nML9Y