"I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-w...
✒️ #JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet, courtier and rascally rake, was #BOTD 1 April 1647. #Poetry
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, stays one of the maximum complicated figures in English poetry. His lifestyles combined excessive artwork and reckless behavior, skepticism and wit, satire and lyricism. .
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"Here lies our mutton-looking king,
Whose word no man relied on,
Who never said a foolish thing
Nor ever did a wise one."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-w...
✒ #JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet and courtier, #DOTD 26 July 1680. #Poetry #Literature
"I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-w...
✒️ #JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet, courtier and rascally rake, #BOTD 10 April 1647. #Poetry
Jacob #Huysmans (ca. 1630-96)
Portrait of #JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-80),
who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1665-70
