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'He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.'
-Robert Frost

🎨Alexandre Calame

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2023-01-10

‘I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.
I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!’
Lewis Carroll ~ Alice in Wonderland.
🖼️ Rackham

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2023-01-08

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe'



🖋 Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

🎨 Sir John Tenniel

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2023-01-07

‘sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door.’

JS Le Fanu, ‘Carmilla’

11 82
2022-12-31

"Sitting under the mistletoe
(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),
One last candle burning low,
All the sleepy dancers gone,
Just one candle burning on,
Shadows lurking everywhere:
Some one came, and kissed me there."

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2022-12-24

Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨
Saturday is BookCat’s catnap day. You can find today’s hashtag fun with our pals at

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2022-12-17

"When the strain of music sounded, all the things that Ghost had shown him, came upon his mind; he softened more and more; and thought that if he could have listened to it often, years ago, he might have cultivated the kindness of life..." - (Charles Dickens)

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2022-12-11

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”

― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

Wood engraving - Alfred Rethel (1816–1859)

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2022-12-10

'And the night shall be filled with music'
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

welcomes you to Today's theme is Music in Literature. 📚🐛

🎨Valera Lutfullina

26 84
2022-12-10

"High in the halls of the kings who are gone,
Jenny would dance with her ghosts..."

- Jenny of Oldstones and Duncan Targaryen, Prince of Dragonflies as mentioned in A Storm of Swords by G.R.R.Martin
🖼️ Jessi Ochse

5 25
2022-12-10

“Look at the moon! How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. You would fancy she was looking for dead things.”
― Oscar Wilde, Salomé
🎨Aubrey Beardsley

20 82
2022-11-27

'For the winds that awakened the stars are blowing through my blood.'
-W. B. Yeats

🎨Constantin Nepo

53 167
2022-11-26

Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨
Saturday is BookCat’s catnap day. You can find today’s fabulous hashtag fun with our pals at and

(art bySei Koyanagui)

11 82
2022-11-26

"These Tuatha were great necromancers, skilled in all magic, and excellent in all the arts as builders, poets, and musicians."
(Lady Jane Wilde "Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland)

🎨 Stephen Reid

with a bow to

31 107
2022-11-26

'Then the sudden rush
Of the rain, and the riot
Of the shrieking, tearing gale
Breaks loose in the night'
-Henry Van Dyke

🎨ZsaZsa Bellagio

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2022-11-20

‘Her own storm was always the most terrible.’ Tove Jansson ~ Tales from Moominvalley.

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2022-11-19

"The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows." (Schiller)

🎨 Aivazovsky

24 131
2022-11-19

"People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not."
–J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye

7 20
2022-11-12

‘Not hear it?—yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long—long—long—many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it—yet I dared not….I dared not—I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!’ 😱
—Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher

13 47
2022-10-30

".. I gathered that what he chiefly remembers is a horrible, an intensely horrible, face of crumpled linen."

Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad–M R James
🎨James McBryde (1904)

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2022-10-29