American writer, screenwriter and essayist Gore Vidal was born on 3 October 1925 (and died in 2012). In addition to literature, he was also involved in politics. Quotes “Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.” “At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation,… Read More Gore Vidal & Society
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (30 September 1207 – 1273), was a Persian mystic, philosopher and poet, founder of the Mevlevi order of Sufism. Rumi was known as the “drunken Sufi” because he found ecstasy in dancing, poetry and music.One day Rumi was walking along a street in Konya, Turkey (then part of the Persian empire) when… Read More The Wisdom of Rumi
Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, was born on 29 September 1758. He was a British officer in the Royal Navy, which, under his leadership, proved its supremacy over the French, during the Napoleonic Wars (1797–1815). He is regarded as one of the greatest naval commanders in history.He died on 21 October 1805 at… Read More Horatio Nelson
American novelist, essayist, and short story writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, the capital of Minnesota, on 24 September 1896. “The Great Gatsby”, “Tender is the Night” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, are some of his best known works, from which various cinematographic transpositions have been obtained. Few people… Read More A Poem by Fitzgerald
Bruce Springsteen, the famous American singer-songwriter and guitarist, was born on 23 September 1949- “The Boss” nickname was given to him long before he ever became a big star, in his club days, when he was assigned the task of collecting the band’s pay from club owners and then distributing it to the members of… Read More Happy Birthday, Boss
🔵 Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield better-known simply as Lord Chesterfield, British statesman and man of letters., was born on 22 September 1694 🔵 Even though for over thirty years he wrote his son Philip, letters full of advice to transform him into a perfect aristocrat, equipped with the essential skills of culture, taste… Read More Lord Chesterfield – Advice – Autumn
William Carlos Williams (born on 17 September 1883) was an American poet associated with the Imagist movement, who rejected traditional conventions of rhyme and meter, and used brusque, colloquial, and incisive American-English in his poetry. (see here) Here is a poem taken from one of his early collections, “Sour Grapes ” (1921) Arrival And yet… Read More WCW: “Arrival”
Laurence J. Peter (16 September 1919 –1990) was a Canadian educator and management theorist, best known for having formulated the “Peter Principle”, a theory of incompetence in management (see here). 🟨 “Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.” 🟨 “Originality is the fine art of remembering… Read More L.J. Peter
Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 –1840) was a 19th century Romantic painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. “I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my… Read More Friedrich & Painting
Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (2 September 1852-1935) The teaching is that we have to live as we think, otherwise, sooner or later, we end up thinking about how we have lived.There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity..You are truly healed from a woman only when you are no longer… Read More C’est la vie (P. Bourget)
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