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john milton, the dorit kemsley of english poetry

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day..." 🤌🤌🤌🤌 Shakespeare you ate that one lil thing

"'Tell me,' he wanted to say, 'everything in the whole world' - for he had the wildest, most extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how speak to a man who does not see you - who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depths of the sea instead?"

not even one chapter in, i know that, not only was her pen on fire, but the paper was as well. when she handed in the manuscript, she burned down the publishing house

philip sidney i know what you are (down bad for a man i to u 16. vijeku)

define aura? walter raleigh writing the hardest verse known to mankind in the bible before his death ('even such is time...')

reading epithalamium should be considered an olympic sport

currently planning to exhume chaucer and ask him what the fuck he meant by describing a dagger as gay

10/10 opening line

almost a hundred pages in and i gagged *once*. is "the modern classic" in the room with us right now?

one has to be exceptionally talented to make a spaceship battle so *fucking* boring

"Whoa."

- the entire paragraph that T.J.R. wrote as a response to one of the main characters finding out about a crucial piece of information that is supposed to progress the story

for fucks sake

if you're seriously naming your villains agamemnon, juno, barbarossa, omnius, erasmus etc. why THE FUCK are you writing a sci-fi book??? be creative 🤗❤️

ick fest za sad ali ne gubim nadu 👍

lady jessica reverend MOTHER

bro casually added bosnian (?) and thought we wouldnt notice lmao he was like "hmmm i need an inspiration for a language used by an ancient civilization inspired by middle-eastern cultures..ah yes a slavic language will do!" i just wonder if jessicas mistranslation is intentional or did frank just not give a fuck

"Paradise on my right. Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind."

😵‍💫

"Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool your sorrow."

frank's pen was on fire ❗️

frank herbert really made one of the most conniving, greedy, power-hungry, warmongering, deceitful, manipulative, genocidal, immoral, mercyless, maniacal antagonists of all time and said: "nah he's not evil enough let's make him a gay pedophile as well" 😭

finished book 1 of book 1 of a 22 book series 👍

how the fuck does one make *the first page of a novel* so poetic and so beautiful???

SIBLINGS had SEX in a CHURCH next to their CHILD'S DEAD BODY

daenerys when she says "but im just a little girl who knows nothing of warfare" (she has committed several war crimes within the span of a few days):

13 year old sansa marrying 30 year old tyrion because of politics ... we're in the gutter george we get it

how it feels reading bran's chapters from his direwolf's pov:

(20 pages in and *boom* incest)