“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.’-Albert Einstein
Nixen (Silberfische), c. 1899, by Gustav Klimt (born 14 July 1862)
“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that.”-Woody Guthrie (born 14 July 1912)
Jerome Lawrence Quote
Happy Birthday to Franz Kafka! Here he is, looking suitably, well, Kafkaesque.
Franz Kafka
QUOTE: “Books are a narcotic.”
SOME WORKS: Amerika; The Trial; The Castle; A Country Doctor; The Metamorphosis; The Village Schoolmaster; Letters to Felice
A KEEPSAKE:
Franz Kafka Tote Bag by Little Shop of Joy. $5.00
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”-Ian Fleming
Elizabeth Barrett Browning died on 29 June 1861. Here she is, looking intense.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, September 1859
QUOTE: “Who so loves believes the impossible.”
SOME WORKS: The Seraphim, and Other Poems; Casa Guidi Windows; Aurora Leigh; Poems Before Congress; Last Poems.
A KEEPSAKE:
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Earrings by Persephone. $24.00
“I lived to write, and wrote to live.”-Samuel Rogers
“Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.”-W.H. Auden
“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”-Allen Ginsberg
L.M. Montgomery Quote
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 