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"Out of a fired ship, which by no way
But drowning could be rescued from the flame,
Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came
Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;
So all were lost, which in the ship were found,"

- John Donne - A Burnt Ship

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“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
- Lord Byron

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“Writing is the painting of the voice.”
– Voltaire

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'The Vampire; or, The Bride of the Isles,' by James Robinson Planché (1820), was inspired by John Polidori's 'The Vampyre' (1819). Planché created a vampire-trap, a stage mechanism to give entry and exit to the vampire. I discovered this play thanks to

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“Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.”

~ Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière

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'La Fl. Would you prevent me from cursing misers?
Har. No; but I will prevent you from prating and from being insolent. Hold your tongue, will you?
La Fl. I name nobody.
Har. Another word, and I'll thrash you.'
Moliere, The Miser.

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“Rat,” he moaned, “how about your supper, you poor, cold, hungry, weary animal? I’ve nothing to give you—nothing—not a crumb! ...“No bread!” groaned the Mole dolorously; “no butter, no—”

“No pâté de foie gras, no champagne!” continued the Rat, grinning.

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"Some have won a wild delight,
By daring wilder sorrow;
Could I gain thy love to-night,
I’d hazard death to-morrow."

Passion | Charlotte Brontë


🖼️Romeo & Juliet by Sergio Cupido

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'Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?'
-William Blake

Welcome to the first of 2022!📚🐛

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“All children, except one, grow up.”
–JM Barrie, Peter Pan

🎨Scott Gustafson

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“Always winter but never Christmas.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe



🎨Cover illustration from the movie The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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'Dust of Snow' by Robert Frost

"The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."



🎨 'Crow on snow-covered tree branch' by Ohara Koson, 1945

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“Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle” -Edgar Allan Poe

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“But in the dim dusk of a winter’s day there appeared suddenly among them a man, as it seemed, of great bulk and girth, cloaked and hooded in white; and he walked up to the fire without a word.” (Beleg Cúthalion) —#Tolkien

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“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”
Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009)

Art : Anna Berg (Swedish, 1875 - 1950): Winter garden (via Bukowskis)

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'Why were you born when the snow was falling?
You should have come to the cuckoo’s calling,
Or when grapes are green in the cluster,
Or, at least, when lithe swallows muster
For their far off flying
From summer dying.'
-Christina Rossetti

🎨Remigius Adrianus Haanen

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Annabel Lee
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

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'The deil cam fiddlin' thro' the town,
And danc'd awa wi' th' Exciseman'
-Robert Burns

Dear bookworms, this week's theme is Lyric Poetry!🎶🐛

Use for a retweet! (Saturday 10am-8pm CET)

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"Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?" (P.B. Shelley "To the Moon")

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