Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. Wikipedia
Born: August 6, 1809, Somersby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Died: October 6, 1892, Lurgashall, United Kingdom
I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
"I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me"
Adieu #AlfredLordTennyson, Poet Laureate and President of The London Library, who died #onthisday 1892 .
Adieu #AlfredLordTennyson, Poet Laureate and President of The London Library, who died #onthisday 1892 .
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2017紀念Le Corbusier和王錦堂 7 講：現代主義建築教父-柯比意130歲紀念特展/ Le Corbusier : Exposition rétrospective du père fondateur de l’architecture moderne
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Happy Birthday Le Corbusier! He helped form the basis of almost all modernist architecture and urban planning, with almost all contemporary theory essentially acting as a continuation of, or a rejection of, his ideals.
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. Wikipedia
Born: October 6, 1887, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Died: August 27, 1965, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
A house is a machine for living in.
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Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book ...Wikipedia
Born: February 8, 1911, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Died: October 6, 1979, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Partner: Lota de Macedo Soares (1952–1967); Alice Methfessel (1971–1979)
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Elizabeth Bishop died in Boston, Massachusetts on this day day in 1979 (aged 68).
"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.
—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
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The first of its kind–a comprehensive collection of the best of the villanelle, a delightful poetic form whose popularity ranks only behind that of the sonnet and the haiku. With its intricate rhyme scheme and dance-like pattern of repeating lines, its marriage of recurrence and surprise, the villanelle is a form that has fascinated poets since its introduction almost two centuries ago. Many well-known poets in the past have tried their hands at the villanelle, and the form is enjoying a revival among poets writing today. The poems collected here range from the classic villanelles of the nineteenth century to such famous and memorable examples as Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night,” Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art,” and Sylvia Plath’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song.” Here too are the cutting-edge works of contemporary poets, including Sherman Alexie, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Rita Dove, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and many others whose poems demonstrate the dazzling variety that can be found within the parameters of a single, strict form. READ an excerpt from the Preface here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/villanelles-by-edited…/
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