"To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live."

Poems: allpoetry.com/Hans-Christian…]

✒ #HansChristianAndersen, Danish novelist, fairytale writer, and poet, #DOTD 4 August 1875. #Poetry #Literaturel

"Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre."

✒ #WitoldGombrowicz, Polish author and playwright, was #BOTD 4 August 1904. #Theatre #Literaturel

"We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing in life, really."

✒ #MaeveBinchy, Irish author, playwright, and journalist, #DOTD 30 July 2012. #Theatre #Literaturel

“Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.”

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mark-v...

✒️ #MarkVanDoren, American poet and author, was #BOTD 13 June 1894. #Poetry #Literaturel

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

✒ English scholar and lexicographer #SamuelJohnson passed away #OTD 13 December 1784. #Literaturel