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💙MARK STRAND
Born on this day, in 1934
THE COMING OF LIGHT
“Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light.”
~ Mark Strand
thanks to .@POETSorg
“Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction”
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Died #OTD in 2007
Celebrate
🎈LITERARY HUB AT 5 🎈
Born on this day, April 8, 2015
@lithub
Here is our first A Phone Call from Paul with NEIL GAIMAN
.@neilhimself who splendidly
launched our series in September 2015!
EAVESDROP on our ☎️
⤵️
📞 https://t.co/5ZCOqrIk8a
“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
~ James Baldwin
🔷 JOHANNES BRAHMS
Died on this day, in 1897
My Favorite Brahms:
Listen to the great Alexis Weissenberg in the First Brahms Piano Concerto
⤵️
https://t.co/w0jwuuCpk4
🔳 GRAHAM GREENE
Died on this day, in 1991
"There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost"
💎SERGE GAINSBOURG
Born on this day, in 1928
Serge Gainsbourg
sings
“La Chanson de Prevert”
⤵️
https://t.co/S4M9LzajHJ
💎MILAN KUNDERA
Born on this day, in 1929
“There is no perfection, only life.”
“I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.”
~ Eugène Ionesco
Died on this day, in 1994
"There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost"
~ Graham Greene