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Monthly Archives: March 2014
Daily Diversion #198: View from the Party
I didn’t post anything yesterday, because it was my lovely best friend’s birthday. I was too busy partying it up at a place with incredible views. Like this:
Pretty Party View
“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”-Albert Camus
Writers in Art: Vladimir Solovyov by Ivan Kramskoy, 1885
Vladimir Solovyov by Ivan Kramskoy, 1885
Vladimir Solovyov by Ivan Kramskoy, 1885
Place du Theatre-Francais, Spring by Camille Pissarro
Place du Theatre-Francais, Spring by Camille Pissarro (1898)
Place du Theatre-Francais, Spring by Camille Pissarro (1898)
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”-Hal Borland
Happy Birthday, Wilfred Owen!
Wilfred Owen, English poet, was born on 18 March 1893.
Wilfred Owen
“All a poet can do today is warn.”-Wilfred Owen
He was killed in action during World War I, shortly before the Armistice.
Meet the Young Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (born Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto) as a young man.
Jane Austen Temporary Tattoos
Jane Austen Temporary Tattoos in a Tin @ the Jane Austen Gift Shop
15 March 1983: Rebecca West
Dame Rebecca West died on 15 March 1983. She was ninety.
Rebecca West
“It is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.”-Rebecca West
“It isn’t only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.”-Rebecca West, The Birds Fall Down
Fun Fact: Rebecca West and H.G. Wells were the parents of author Anthony West (1914-1987). The latter had a contentious-at-best relationship with his mother, who never married his much-adored father. Let’s just say that his childhood was a sticky, complicated mess and leave it at that.
Daily Diversion #197: The World’s 1000 Best Poems
My newest bookish treasures…three volumes of The World’s 1000 Best Poems. They cost .75 each from Out of the Closet.
The World’s 1000 Best Poems (1929).
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 