I know this body is impatient.
I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind.
Yet I loved, I love.
I want no sentimentality.
I want no more than home."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...
✒ American poet #RobertCreeley #DOTD 30 March 2005. #Poetry #Literature
“I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself.”
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-c...
✒️ #JohnCiardi, American poet, #DOTD 30 March 1986. #Poetry #Literature
“We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.”
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jean-t...
✒️ #JeanToomer, American novelist and poet, #DOTD 30 March 1967. #Poetry #Literature
#OTD #TDIH #March30, 1925: #DOTD: #RIP #RudolfSteiner. #Philosophers #Activists #Architects #Occultists #Authors #Rosicrucians #TIRO #OccultSky #MysticSky
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_...
A day to remember Jeanne-Paule ‘Jeannine’ Deckers, better known as Sœur Sourire, the Singing Nun, who #DOTD in 1985. The Singing Nun earned US #OneHitWonder honors in 1963 when "Dominique" spent 12 weeks on the US #Billboard #Top40, including 4 at #1! #TheSingingNun #OneHitWondered
Picture shows a Lithium Ion Cell, because it won Driver of the Day
#F1 #Suzuka #JapaneseGP #DOTD
Driver of the Day!
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
🎬 Remembering #AgnèsVarda, Belgium-born French director, “mother of the French New Wave”, who #DOTD 29 March 2019. #Film #Filmmaking
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
✒️ #JohnBurroughs, American writer and naturalist (Burroughs Medal namesake), #DOTD 29 March 1921. #Nature #Literature
“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.”
❄️Robert Falcon #Scott (Antarctic) #DOTD 29 March 1912.
"I painted like that because I wanted to get through to something new - a kind of painting that was my own."
🎨 #GeorgesSeurat, French Post-Impressionist painter (Pointillism), #DOTD 29 March 1891, aged 31. #Art #Painting
“The instruction that every man is free to receive from books in silence and solitude can never be completely corrupted.”
✒️ #MarquisdeCondorcet, French enlightenment philosopher and mathematician, #DOTD 29 March 1794. #Philosophy
"Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be."
✒️ #EmanuelSwedenborg, Swedish philosopher, mystic, and scientist, #DOTD 29 March 1772. #Philosophy
#OTD #TDIH #March29, 2014: #DOTD: #RIP #PattyThomas. #Dancers #Actresses #Singers #Beauties #BobHope #USO #WorldWarII #DanceSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHum...
#OTD #TDIH #March29, 2014: #DOTD: #RIP #PattyThomas. #Dancers #Actresses #Beauties #BobHope #USO #WorldWarII #DanceSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1GE...
#OTD #TDIH #March29, 2001 #DOTD: #RIP #Pianist #JohnLewis. #Pianists #Composers #Arrangers #ModernJazzQuartet #MJQ #Jazz #CoolJazz #JazzSky #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pt5...
#OTD #TDIH #March29, 2001 #DOTD: #RIP #Pianist #JohnLewis. #Pianists #Composers #Arrangers #ModernJazzQuartet #MJQ #Jazz #CoolJazz #JazzSky #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=78h5...
#OTD #TDIH #March29, 2001 #DOTD: #RIP #Pianist #JohnLewis. #Pianists #Composers #Arrangers #ModernJazzQuartet #MJQ #Jazz #CoolJazz #JazzSky #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXnk...
"...it was after all possible to unite passion, poetry, sex and song in a living theatrical form". (Michael Billington reviewing Arden's The Workhouse Donkey)
✒️ #JohnArden, English playwright (Left-handed Liberty), #DOTD 28 March 2012. #Theatre #Literature
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
"I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.”
✒️ #EugèneIonesco, Romanian-French playwright and critic, #DOTD 28 March 1994. #Theatre #Literature
“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”
🎨 #MarcChagall, Russian-French painter of Jewish ancestry, #DOTD 28 March 1985. #Art #Painting
"The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day."
🎶 #WCHandy, African American composer and musician known as the "Father of the #Blues" (Memphis Blues, St Louis Blues), #DOTD 28 March 1958.
▶️ youtu.be/ZGqBmlZR3dc
“#Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
🎹 Sergei #Rachmaninoff, Russian-born piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer (Aleko; Piano Concerto No. 3), #DOTD 28 March 1943.
▶️ youtu.be/rEGOihjqO9w