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- In the Renaissance period being fat meant to show the “value” of the human body and pureness.
- Minerva and the Centaur by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, circa 1482
- When we take things for granted
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- T.S Eliot – La misère de la condition humaine
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- Vincent v. Gogh to Emily Bernard – Langlois Bridge
- Vincent v. Gogh – What you say should be applied to others rather than to me
- Winston Churchill – What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to?
- Winston Churchill – How noble a woman’s heart can be.
- Tender Photo Unearthed from a Turbulent Time.
- White’ slaves used for 1860s fundraiser propaganda.
- Poet and essayist Adrienne Rich
- Old Letter – I was ready to sink into the earth with shame
- The Masked Letter
- To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee
- C.S Lewis, A pantomime Aslan would be blasphemy
- Mark Twain to Helen Keller The bulk of all human utterances is plagiarism
- Noel Coward to Marlene Dietrich – DO NOT be so bloody vulnerable
- William Powell Frith
- Benny Hill – “Girls are like pianos
- Jack Prelutsky (1940 – present) Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face
- Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) What happens to a dream deferred?
- William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) Brown Penny
- Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) A Woman Waits for Me
- Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885) More Strong Than Time
- Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) Under The Waterfal
- Ted Hughes (1930 – 1998) Lovesong
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- Shel Silverstein (1930 – 1999 ) Where the Sidewalk Ends
- Robert Hayden (1913 – 1980) Monet’s Waterlilies
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- Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) IN THE FOREST
- Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809 – 1892) The Brook
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- Amy Lowell (1874 – 1925 ) The Tree of Scarlet Berries
- The Merman by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- The Mermaid by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Gandhi sitting at a spinning wheel. ~ Mohandas Gandhi In The Story of My Experiments With Truth ~
- Through My Green Eyes.
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- “Courage is stepping outside your comfort zone”
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- The Eagle Represents …
- Love letter from French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac
- The love letters of John Keats and Fanny Brawne.
- A love letter from Voltaire to Catherine Olympe Dunoyer.
- A love letter from Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson –
- Death is not the worst thing in life.
- A Journey of Self Discovery
- The Present.
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Immortal Beloved
- Ernest Hemingway – Ezra Pound is obviously crazy
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- George Bernard Shaw – You are doomed to deserved failure
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – Something extraordinary
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- Oscar Wilde – Art is useless because…
- M. Twain To W. Whitman – What great births you have witnessed!
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- H. G. Wells on American journalists
- T.S. Eliot – TO ALL POLLICLE DOGS AND JELLICLE CATS!
- Arthur Conan Doyle – The Cottingley Fairies
- Louie Armstrong – Am Ricely and Chickenly Yours
- King Henry VIII – Wishes he were yours
- Robert Burns -Thou eunuch of language.
- Walt Whitman “Song Of Myself “
- Transitioning into a new phase.
- Our Mask – Being True To Who We Really Are.
- Rhythm Of Love.
- Obituary Of Common Sense.
- This has to be the best divorce letter ever written.
- Life Is …
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- William Wordsworth Poem – Daffodils
- Touch a Woman’s Mind.
- The Long and Winding Road.
- Can Going Without Money Hurt the Economy? One Man’s Quest to Be Penniless
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- Useless but now you know.
- WD -40 Who knew?
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- It looks weird,but believe it or not, you can read it.
- George Carlin’s Views On Aging.
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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Poet and essayist Adrienne Rich
Poet and essayist Adrienne Rich, a feminist literary figure celebrated as much for deeply personal reflections on her own life as for sometimes-biting social commentary, has died at age 82. Rich, who lived and wrote openly as a lesbian for … Continue reading
Old Letter – I was ready to sink into the earth with shame
Getting hideously drunk at a dinner party and embarrassing yourself is certainly nothing new. As far back as the 9th Century, the beautifully named ‘Dunhuang Bureau of Etiquette’ insisted that local officials use the following letter template (dated 856) when sending … Continue reading
The Masked Letter
Written by a frustrated Lt. General Sir Henry Clinton during theRevolutionary War in 1777, this beautifully crafted Masked Letter is a perfect example of early coded correspondence. The letter reads perfectly well on its own, however only when you place a mask over … Continue reading
To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon — who, since being emancipated , had moved to Ohio, found paid … Continue reading
C.S Lewis, A pantomime Aslan would be blasphemy
The Kilns,Headington Quarry, Oxford 18 Dec. 1959 Dear Sieveking (Why do you ‘Dr.’ me? Had we not dropped the honorifics?) As things worked out, I wasn’t free to hear a single instalment of our serial except the first. What I did hear, … Continue reading
Mark Twain to Helen Keller The bulk of all human utterances is plagiarism
In 1892, deaf blind author Helen Keller was accused of plagiarism after a short story of hers. Riverdale-on-the-Hudson St. Patrick’s Day, ’03 Dear Helen,— I must steal half a moment from my work to say how glad I am to have your book, and … Continue reading
Noel Coward to Marlene Dietrich – DO NOT be so bloody vulnerable
Firefly Hill Port Maria Jamaica B.W.I. Oh, darling, Your letter filled me with such a lot of emotions, the predominant one being rage that you should allow yourself to be so humiliated and made so unhappy by a situation … Continue reading
William Powell Frith
William Powell Frith was born in 1819 in Aldfield, a village in North Yorkshire. His father was the house steward at Studley Royal. However, he soon moved on to become a hotel manager in Harrogate. The young William’s artistic talent … Continue reading
Benny Hill – “Girls are like pianos
When they’re not upright, they’re grand.” He was born Alfred Hawthorn Hill. It was his grandfather who introduced him to Burlesque Shows and the theatre from where the young Benny Hill was to draw much of his comic inspiration. After … Continue reading
Jack Prelutsky (1940 – present) Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face
Be glad your nose is on your face,not pasted on some other place,for if it were where it is not,you might dislike your nose a lot. Imagine if your precious nosewere sandwiched in between your toes,that clearly would not be … Continue reading
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