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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1754-03-02), The Adventurer, No. 138More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/25299…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #author #distraction #drudgery #essayist #novelist #storyteller #writing #writer
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New polls out on my patreon! What regular content should I produce? What essay should I write? Go become a member and give me your opinion at https://www.patreon.com/ladyaranea!
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#publishing #satire #humor #literature #essay #comedy #fun #book #satirist #essayist No swearing is as effective as humor. People who read my satirical novels burst out laughing, but when they recover, they become hostile towards me because they think I'm making fun of them.
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Photos of Heather Cox Richardson speaking at the National Press Club, 16 Jan. 2025, now available exclusively on Alamy: https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/1317563/dcnotables.html
#Photography #NewsPhotography #Alamy #Historian #Essayist #WashingtonDC #NationalPressClub
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Photos of Heather Cox Richardson speaking at the National Press Club, 16 Jan. 2025, now available exclusively on Alamy: https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/1317563/dcnotables.html
#Photography #NewsPhotography #Alamy #Historian #Essayist #WashingtonDC #NationalPressClub
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Song of the Day November 30 2024
In remembrance of the birth of Gordon Parks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Parks
What Gordon Parks Saw (a brief documentary)
https://youtu.be/dcVOItrZX6U?si=hUteGUjRnZmLGwI6
#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #November30 #GordonParks #RenaissanceMan #raconteur #photographer #essayist #writer #activist #CivilRIghts #HumanRights #documentarian #director #LifeMagazine #poet #artist #EssenceMagazine #composer #musician #Music #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s 1980s #1990s #2000s
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When the living rot on the bodies of the dead
When the combatants’ teeth become knives
When words lose their meaning and become arsenic
When the aggressors’ nails become claws
When old friends hurry to join the carnage
When the victors’ eyes become live shells
When clergymen pick up the hammer and crucify
When officials open the door to the enemy
When the mountain peoples’ feet weigh like elephants
When roses grow only in cemeteries
When they eat the Palestinian’s liver before he’s even dead
When the sun itself has no other purpose than being a shroudthe human tide moves on . . .
By Etel Adnan, “XXXIX” from The Arab Apocalypse.
Etel Adnan was a #Lebanese #American #poet , #essayist & #VisualArtist. Adnan always lived between different languages & cultures. She spoke French, English, Greek & Turkish & lived in Paris, Beirut & California.
#Art was like home to her, something to hold on to; a language that transcends borders and cultures.
‘Colours make visible what the person is trying to say, but silent’.
One of her best-known works is Sitt Marie Rose (1978), in which she writes about the horrors of the Lebanese civil war.
Adnan began writing in French, but gradually discovered the language’s colonial undertones.
Etel Adnan grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, which was under French mandate at the time. Everyone learned French at school. Arabic, which most people spoke, became an inferior language.
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When the living rot on the bodies of the dead
When the combatants’ teeth become knives
When words lose their meaning and become arsenic
When the aggressors’ nails become claws
When old friends hurry to join the carnage
When the victors’ eyes become live shells
When clergymen pick up the hammer and crucify
When officials open the door to the enemy
When the mountain peoples’ feet weigh like elephants
When roses grow only in cemeteries
When they eat the Palestinian’s liver before he’s even dead
When the sun itself has no other purpose than being a shroudthe human tide moves on . . .
By Etel Adnan, “XXXIX” from The Arab Apocalypse.
Etel Adnan was a #Lebanese #American #poet , #essayist & #VisualArtist. Adnan always lived between different languages & cultures. She spoke French, English, Greek & Turkish & lived in Paris, Beirut & California.
#Art was like home to her, something to hold on to; a language that transcends borders and cultures.
‘Colours make visible what the person is trying to say, but silent’.
One of her best-known works is Sitt Marie Rose (1978), in which she writes about the horrors of the Lebanese civil war.
Adnan began writing in French, but gradually discovered the language’s colonial undertones.
Etel Adnan grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, which was under French mandate at the time. Everyone learned French at school. Arabic, which most people spoke, became an inferior language.
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Le #poème du dimanche : ‘‘D’ailes et d’empreintes’’ de #Hubert #Haddad
Né à #Tunis en 1947, Hubert Haddad, est #poète, #romancier, peintre, #essayiste. #Auteur d’une œuvre importante et multiforme, il fonde en 1969, la #revue de #poésie Le Point d’être dans la mouvance du surréalisme#poem #poet #novelist painter #essayist #Author #magazine #poetry #tunisia #tunisie #تونس
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Le #poème du dimanche : ‘‘D’ailes et d’empreintes’’ de #Hubert #Haddad
Né à #Tunis en 1947, Hubert Haddad, est #poète, #romancier, peintre, #essayiste. #Auteur d’une œuvre importante et multiforme, il fonde en 1969, la #revue de #poésie Le Point d’être dans la mouvance du surréalisme#poem #poet #novelist painter #essayist #Author #magazine #poetry #tunisia #tunisie #تونس
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#gaza #genocide #palestine #israel #personal #experience #novelist #writer #essayist #susanalbuhawa #holocaust
Writer and scientist Susan Abulhawa is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a children’s organization dedicated to uplifting #Palestinian #children. She wrote the following piece during her stay in #Rafah in February and early March.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/history-will-record-israel-committed-holocaust/45006
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#gaza #genocide #palestine #israel #personal #experience #novelist #writer #essayist #susanalbuhawa #holocaust
Writer and scientist Susan Abulhawa is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a children’s organization dedicated to uplifting #Palestinian #children. She wrote the following piece during her stay in #Rafah in February and early March.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/history-will-record-israel-committed-holocaust/45006
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born #OTD in 1854 at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Oscar Wilde by William & Daniel Downey, c. 1881 - in or before 1891. Rijksmuseum.
#OscarWilde #Poet #Playwright #Novelist #Essayist #ShortStoryWriter
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Today I found out that my essay “The Anxious Writer” has been purchased by Open Minds Quarterly, my story “This is the Time Just before Spider Woman Meets Kiviuq” has been purchased by the Delta Literary Arts Society, and my story “Wolf Mother” has begun its editorial process at Augur Magazine. I also have two short stories coming out in an anthology called Mihko Kiskisiwin (Blood Memory) published by the Indigenous Poets Society, possibly as soon as this December. https://www.openmindsquarterly.com @indigenousauthors #WritingCommunity #Essayist #CNF #ShortStory #WritersOfMastodon #AuthorsOfMastodon #LivedExperience #Anxiety #MentalHealth
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Today I found out that my essay “The Anxious Writer” has been purchased by Open Minds Quarterly, my story “This is the Time Just before Spider Woman Meets Kiviuq” has been purchased by the Delta Literary Arts Society, and my story “Wolf Mother” has begun its editorial process at Augur Magazine. I also have two short stories coming out in an anthology called Mihko Kiskisiwin (Blood Memory) published by the Indigenous Poets Society, possibly as soon as this December. https://www.openmindsquarterly.com @indigenousauthors #WritingCommunity #Essayist #CNF #ShortStory #WritersOfMastodon #AuthorsOfMastodon #LivedExperience #Anxiety #MentalHealth
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#Introductie
Uit 1976. Woont in #PhnomPenh, #Cambodja, met poezen Fifty Shady & Chickpea.UNESCO erkend digitaal pionier. Actief als #schrijver #essayist @NRC @Volkskrant #vertaler #consultant en #Kilimanjaro Expert met https://www.expeditieKilimanjaro.nl
Vrije tijd: #radioliefhebber #literatuur #boeken #reizen #backpacken #koken #eten
Werkt aan roman "Het Laatste Hostel", de memoir "Almost Always There" en de non-fictie eetgids "Eat Out, Lose Fat".
Wat ik nú doe? https://www.ramonstoppelenburg.nl/now
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Time for an #introduction post!
I'm Jenny the #botanist I live in northwest Washington between the mountains and the sea.
In my professional life I write copy on a variety of topics, mainly pertaining to #horticulture , wild plants, and general #biology . I'm also a #druid #pagan , #Essayist native plant steward, #forager , amateur #herbalist , lifelong #autodidact , history nerd, embroiderer, #ethnobotany , enthusiast, proud wife to my #trans wife, mother of two, and a wandering #poet -
Time for an #introduction post!
I'm Jenny the #botanist I live in northwest Washington between the mountains and the sea.
In my professional life I write copy on a variety of topics, mainly pertaining to #horticulture , wild plants, and general #biology . I'm also a #druid #pagan , #Essayist native plant steward, #forager , amateur #herbalist , lifelong #autodidact , history nerd, embroiderer, #ethnobotany , enthusiast, proud wife to my #trans wife, mother of two, and a wandering #poet -
Working on my artist statement for the first time for an upcoming writing fellowship application. Anybody have any tips, resources or examples to share?
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#writingcommunity #academia #fellowship #writeradvice #CVSkills #writerslife #writersresearch #essayist #poet #feminist #grants #workingwriter -
Every year, in #November, at the #Season that follows the hour of the dead, in the crowning and majestic hours of #Autumn, I go to visit the #Chrysanthemums...
They are, indeed, the most #Universal, the most #Diverse of Flowers.
- Maurice Maeterlinck, #Belgian #Playwright, #Poet, and #Essayist
#Poetry #Gardening #Garden #Nature #Trees #GardenersofMastodon
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Every year, in #November, at the #Season that follows the hour of the dead, in the crowning and majestic hours of #Autumn, I go to visit the #Chrysanthemums...
They are, indeed, the most #Universal, the most #Diverse of Flowers.
- Maurice Maeterlinck, #Belgian #Playwright, #Poet, and #Essayist
#Poetry #Gardening #Garden #Nature #Trees #GardenersofMastodon
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#introduction I'm Beth Winegarner, a #journalist, #author, #essayist, and occasional #popculture #writer in San Francisco. I'm very active on #instagram (same username) and I'm currently writing a book on the history of #SanFrancisco #cemeteries (and how many dead were left behind & forgotten). I'm also a #sewing fiend and #historybounding person with a YouTube channel (CozyCore). I'm very into medicinal plants and #herbs and #gardening, too!
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Five Minutes on #Hume
Professor #SimonBlackburn gives five minutes on #Scottish #historian, #philosopher, #economist, #diplomat and #essayist #DavidHume
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4kdlQSLd6U&ab_channel=NewCollegeoftheHumanities
