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Maurice Lalau ~ The Queen Sings Sweetly ~ The Romance of Tristram and Iseult ~ 1909 ~ via
The Queen sings sweetly.
Translated from the French by Florence Simmonds ~ London: William Heinemann ~ c1910
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Vyrvich Valentin - via
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Eduard Klieber Girl Reading 1855
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Harry Clarke ~ The Year’s at the Spring ~ Contents Page Illustration ~ 1920 ~ via
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The Reader, sculpture by Carolyn Wirth located at Melrose Public Library, Melrose, MA, USA
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“Let’s look at plot and its several ways to make the story move. Note- I said: “move.” I did not say “move forward.” That is because sometimes plot moves us backward. And sometimes it moves us downward. And sometimes it moves us inward. And sometimes it reaches for the stars.” — Jane Yolen - from Take Joy: A Writer’s Guide to Loving the Craft
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“Whose fault is it that we are so isolated—that we have no real life—that everything apart from writing and reading is ‘felt’ to be a waste of time?” —
Katherine Mansfield, May 15, 1915
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“The artist must be somewhat opposed to society — against received knowledge. He must be prepared to explore strange alleyways, to rebuke accepted wisdom, to confuse and challenge and reconstruct new patterns. The artist is by nature a semi-outlaw.” —
Devlan ~James Michener, The Novel
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Jiminy Cricket ~ Disney Studios ~ via The Pictorial Arts
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Lita Grey Chaplin
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“Poetry saved my life, and enabled me to live inwardly. I do not know how people manage without it.” — Shirley Hazzard (via theparisreview)
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