Françoise Sagan – écrivaine française – (21 juin 1935 – 2004) 3 citations: Aimer, ce n’est pas seulement “aimer bien” ; c’est surtout comprendre La culture, c’est comme la confiture, moins on en a, plus on l’étale. L’intelligence sans bonté est une arme bien dangereuse. Amare non è solo “voler bene”, è soprattutto… Read More Françoise Sagan
William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount – Dublin – on June 13th, 1865 He wrote “To a Young Girl” for Iseult Gunne, the adopted daughter of his beloved Maud. It is a beautiful love poem that sums up the story of the poet’s passionate devotion to her mother and it ideally unites… Read More Yeats: “To a Young Girl”
On June June 13, 1888 : Fernando Pessoa was born exactly 130 years ago. “We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It’s our own concept – our own selves – that we love.” (“The Book… Read More Fernando Pessoa
Paradiso è là dove sarò con i miei cari, foss’anche nel profondo della terra
Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up. (“The Dying Animal”) Smettila di preoccuparti di invecchiare. E pensa a crescere. (“L’animale morente”)
Most people have heard the old line of poetry: “A little learning is a dangerous thing.”, often misquoted as “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” It is attributed to Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744), who wrote it in his “Essay on Criticism” which was published anonymously on May 15, 1711 A… Read More “A little learning is a dangerous thing”
National Limerick Day celebrates the birthday of English artist, illustrator, author and poet Edward Lear (May 12, 1812 – Jan. 29, 1888), who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry, prose and limericks. Limerick poems (named for the Irish city of Limerick) belong to the typically Victorian tradition of nonsense literature and were… Read More 12 MAY – NATIONAL LIMERICK DAY
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made… Invecchia con me! Il meglio deve ancora venire, L’ultima parte della vita, di cui la prima fu creata… This is the beginning of “Rabbi ben Ezra” a poem by Robert Browning about that… Read More “Grow old along with me!…”
On 5 May 1816 Keats published his first poem “O Solitude!” on “The Examiner” , a strongly independent, reformist paper published by the Hunt brothers. It is a Petrarchan sonnet: in the initial octet the speaker says that, if he were to live in solitude he would prefer to do it in contact… Read More “O Solitude!”
On 3 May, 1937 Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel “Gone with the Wind”. It is an epic romance tale set in Georgia during the American Civil War and depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O’Hara, the strong and obstinate daughter of the owner of the plantation Tara, who must use every… Read More Gone with the Wind
