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We are the music makers
We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers
And sitting by desolate streams; —
World-losers and world-forsakers
On whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
Source: Arthur O’Shaughnessy says:
“Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.”
Source: Christina Georgina Rossetti says: | The Müscleheaded Blog

Portrait for Noël Coward’s last Christmas Card
“It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” Blithe Spirit, Noël Coward
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“There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
FROM THE ARCHIVE 15th January 2013
I was rather amused the other day to read this quote by the poet W.H. Auden:
“We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.”
Auden’s poetry certainly does me good. However, if I never hear Funeral Blues (Stop All the Clocks) again—the poem read by John Hannah in Four Weddings and a Funeral—it will be too soon! Read it, yes. Hear it at funerals, no! A friend of mine, an actor and Anglican priest (a rather marvellous combination and a rather marvellous friend), says there has been no lessening in the number of funerals using Funeral Blues or, for that matter, Robbie Williams’ Angels. No comment!
The Auden I love above all else is Night Mail. Predictable of me? Perhaps. Give yourself a treat and…
Source: W. H. Auden Says It Best!
Portrait of W.H. Auden (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I was rather amused the other day to read this quote by the poet W.H. Auden:
“We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.”
Auden’s poetry certainly does me good. However, if I never hear Funeral Blues (Stop All the Clocks) again—the poem read by John Hannah in Four Weddings and a Funeral—it will be too soon! Read it, yes. Hear it at funerals, no! A friend of mine, an actor and Anglican priest (a rather marvellous combination and a rather marvellous friend), says there has been no lessening in the number of funerals using Funeral Blues or, for that matter, Robbie Williams’ Angels. No comment!
The Auden I love above all else is Night Mail. Predictable of me? Perhaps. Give yourself a treat…
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Cecil Beaton was born on this day in 1904.
Cecil Beaton in China during the Second World War
Cecil Beaton Photographs from the collections of the Imperial War Museum.
‘Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.’
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― Scarlett Johansson
Cecil Beaton Photographs from the collections of the Imperial War Museum.
‘Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.’
Cecil Beaton: Portraits and Profiles
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“If I didn’t start painting, I would have raised chickens.” – Grandma Moses, 1860 – 1961, painter
More on Grandma Moses:
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
C S Lewis in Mere Christianity
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