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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”
—Emily Dickinson (poet, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers)
Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist… https://t.co/laRfz8G1FM
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet, died on this day in 1935.
📷Robert Nyman.
William Blake, a British poet, painter & printmaker, was born on this date in 1757. This is "Pity." #art
William Blake (1757 – 1827) #artoftheday poet, painter & printmaker. Seminal figure in history of poetry & visual arts of Romantic Age
Rest in Peace Leonard Cohen: a poet, romantic wanderer, singer & songwriter. A Canadian original. #LeonardCohen
#WilliamMorris, inspirational designer, craftsman, poet, socialist, died #otd in 1896
"Love is the only gold."
📖 Lord Alfred Tennyson, English Poet, In His Library With His Dog(1809-1892).
Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet, was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate in 1917, was born #OnThisDay in 1857
Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, and novelist, died at age 75 in poverty #OnThisDay in 1968.
Anatole France, French poet, journalist, and novelist (Nobel Prize, 1921), was born in Paris #OnThisDay in 1844.
“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass.
Walter Whitman, American poet, died #OnThisDay in 1892.
It's the birthday of novelist, poet, and Beat pioneer Jack Kerouac. #HappyBirthday
#OnThisDay in 1802, Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist and dramatist of the Romantic movement, was born in Besançon
William Blake -poet, painter, visionary- b. #OTD 1757. To see a World in a Grain of Sand & a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Swackett remembers William Shakespeare; was an English poet, playwright and actor. (1564-1616)