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If
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If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
and treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools:
Rudyard Kipling
(December 30th 1865 — January 18th 1936)
— Jan 12, 2026 10:47AM
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If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
and treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools:
Rudyard Kipling
(December 30th 1865 — January 18th 1936)
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Happy the Man
John Dryden
(August 9th 1631 — May 1st 1700)
translating Horace (65 — 8 BC), Odes, Booke III, xxix
...At the Revolution of 1688 he lost his court position as Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal, returning first to the writing of plays and later to translations of Horace, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Boccaccio and others.
— May 03, 2026 06:49AM
John Dryden
(August 9th 1631 — May 1st 1700)
translating Horace (65 — 8 BC), Odes, Booke III, xxix
...At the Revolution of 1688 he lost his court position as Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal, returning first to the writing of plays and later to translations of Horace, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Boccaccio and others.
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Byzantium
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Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood,
Spirit after spirit! The smithies break the flood.
The golden smithies of the Emperor!
Marbles of the dancing floor
Break blotter furies of complexity,
Those images that yet
Fresh images beget,
That dolphin-torn, the gong-tormented sea.
William Butler Yeats
(June 13th 1865 — January 28th 1939)
— May 01, 2026 04:07AM
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Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood,
Spirit after spirit! The smithies break the flood.
The golden smithies of the Emperor!
Marbles of the dancing floor
Break blotter furies of complexity,
Those images that yet
Fresh images beget,
That dolphin-torn, the gong-tormented sea.
William Butler Yeats
(June 13th 1865 — January 28th 1939)
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Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, died Aril 29th 1933.
— Apr 29, 2026 04:51AM
Judi
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Quantum est quod debit
Thomas Moore
(May 28th 1779 — February 25th 1852)
On this day in 1916, the Easter Rising in central Dublin was underway, led by the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Sinn Fein The Rising was put down, 350 of the rebels died, 2,000 were injured and the leaders were executed.
— Apr 28, 2026 07:16AM
Thomas Moore
(May 28th 1779 — February 25th 1852)
On this day in 1916, the Easter Rising in central Dublin was underway, led by the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Sinn Fein The Rising was put down, 350 of the rebels died, 2,000 were injured and the leaders were executed.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson died April 27th 1882 and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery close to Thoreau and Hawthorne.
— Apr 27, 2026 05:32PM
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The poet Thomas Lodge was admitted as a student at Lincoln's Inn April 26th 1578
— Apr 27, 2026 06:17AM
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Torquato Tasso, Italian poet, died April 25th 1595
— Apr 26, 2026 05:47AM
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Poet and writer Robert Penn Warren born in Guthrie, Kentucky, April 24th 1905
— Apr 25, 2026 06:25AM
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From As You Like it
Act II Scene vii
William Shakespeare
(Aril 23rd 1564 — April 23rd 1616)
Shakespeare was buried inside Stratford church with over the grave the lines:
Good friend, for Jesus's sake forbeare
to dig the dust enclosed heart;
Blest lie the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.
— Apr 24, 2026 06:53AM
Act II Scene vii
William Shakespeare
(Aril 23rd 1564 — April 23rd 1616)
Shakespeare was buried inside Stratford church with over the grave the lines:
Good friend, for Jesus's sake forbeare
to dig the dust enclosed heart;
Blest lie the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.
