“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson (died 27 April 1882)
Maud Gonne (died 27 April 1953)
“The earth has music for those who listen.”-George Santayana
A Hymn to Spring by Cecil Gordon Lawson, 1871-1872
Spring Symphony by Abraham Manievich, 1912
Spring by Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya, 1899
Marie Corelli died on 21 April 1924:
Portrait of Marie Corelli by F. Adrian
“No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.”-Marie Corelli, A Romance of Two Worlds
Mary Oliver Quote
…and Kurt Vonnegut is still relevant.
Kurt Vonnegut, 1940. Shortridge High School yearbook.
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”-Kurt Vonnegut (11 November 1922-11 April 2007)
Kurt Vonnegut Quote Dictionary Art Print by Improvisatori. $6.99
“I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’–that wouldn’t be enough–but like a dead man.”-Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka, 1923
Robert Frost Quote
Night Angel Holding a Waning Moon by William Morris (born 24 March 1834)
“So age succeeds age, and dream succeeds dream, and the joy of the dreamer no man knoweth but he who dreameth. Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms, man cannot exist.”-The Story of An African Farm, Olive Schreiner (born 24 march 1855)
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”-Hal Borland
Washington Arch, Spring by Childe Hassam, circa 1893
William Godwin Quote
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