"Seriously yours" – 66 rezultate
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Life is entertaining when we do not take it too seriously...To be able to laugh at life is marvelous.
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David Bowie
A consummate musical chameleon, David Bowie created a career in the Sixties and Seventies that featured his many guises: folksinger, androgyne, alien, decadent, blue-eyed soul man, modern rock star-each one spawning a league of imitators. His late-Seventies collaborations with Brian Eno made Bowie one of the few older stars to be taken seriously by the new wave. In the Eighties, Let\'s Dance (#1, 1983), his entree into the mainstream, was followed by attempts to keep up with current trends. David Jones took up the saxophone at age 13, and when he left Bromley Technical High School (where a friend permanently paralyzed Jones\' left pupil in a fight) to work as a commercial artist three years later, he had started playing in bands (the Konrads, the King Bees, David Jones and the Buzz). Three of Jones\' early bands -- the King Bees, the Manish Boys (featuring session guitarist Jimmy Page), and Davey Jones and the Lower Third -- each recorded a single. In 1966, after changing his name to...
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KVKatri Vala
( 1901 – 1944 ) One of the Finnish poets who brought a free verse style of writing poetry into the mainstream of Finnish literature. Her work is full of the ecstasy of life, longing for distant places, and a use of vocabulary glutted in color, into which are woven a general radical quality, which affects her late works especially. She is considered a late proponent of the ideals of the Carriers of the Flame. Her earlier works show her dedicated to light and its power. Her output is not extensive. Mention should be made of: Kaukainen puutarha (The Distant Garden) (1924) Sininen ovi (The Blue Door) (1926) Maan laiturilla (On the Land Wharf) (1930) In some later works, there is a more serious, darker tone, represented by: Paluu (The Return) (1934) Pesäpuu palaa (The Nest Tree Burns) (1942) Her life’s program was: Oh! If life could be better than death! Katri Vala died of tuberculosis at the end of WW II, while under treatment in Sweden. Even so, her poetry remained more life-positive...
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G.K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere \"rollicking journalist,\" he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people-- such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells--with whom he vehemently disagreed. Chesterton had no difficulty standing up for what he believed. He was one of the few journalists to oppose the Boer War. His 1922 Eugenics and Other Evils attacked what was at that time the most progressive of all ideas, the idea that the human race could and should breed a superior version of itself. In the Nazi experience, history demonstrated the wisdom of his once \"reactionary\" views. His poetry runs the gamut from the comic The Logical Vegetarian to dark and serious ballads. During the dark days of 1940, when Britain...
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John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck (1902-1968), born in Salinas, California, came from a family of moderate means. He worked his way through college at Stanford University but never graduated. In 1925 he went to New York, where he tried for a few years to establish himself as a free-lance writer, but he failed and returned to California. After publishing some novels and short stories, Steinbeck first became widely known with Tortilla Flat (1935), a series of humorous stories about Monterey paisanos. Steinbeck's novels can all be classified as social novels dealing with the economic problems of rural labour, but there is also a streak of worship of the soil in his books, which does not always agree with his matter-of-fact sociological approach. After the rough and earthy humour of Tortilla Flat, he moved on to more serious fiction, often aggressive in its social criticism, to In Dubious Battle (1936), which deals with the strikes of the migratory fruit pickers on California plantations. This was followed...
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WCWendy Cope
Wendy Cope is an award-winning contemporary English poet. She was educated at Farringtons School and read history at St Hilda\'s College, Oxford. She now lives in Winchester with the poet Lachlan Mackinnon. Following her graduation from St Hilda\'s College, Cope spent fifteen years as a primary-school teacher. In 1981 she became Arts and Reviews editor for the Inner London Education Authority magazine- Contact. Five years later she became a freelance writer and was a television critic for The Spectator magazine until 1990. Three books of her poetry have been published (Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis in 1986, Serious Concerns in 1992 and If I Don\'t Know in 2001), and she has edited several anthologies of comic verse. In 1998 she was voted the listeners\' choice in a BBC Radio 4 poll to succeed Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate. She was a judge of the 2007 Man Booker prize.
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PIPhaedrus Caius Iulius
Phaedrus, Gaius Julius (c.15 BC—c. AD 50), Thracian slave who came to Rome and became a freedman in the household of Augustus, the author (in Latin) of a collection of fables in five books containing some hundred stories, published probably in the thirties of the first century AD. There is also an appendix of another thirty-two fables, probably also by Phaedrus. The collection includes fables proper, a number of anecdotes (e.g. about Aesop, Socrates, and Menander), and defences of the author against detractors. The fables are based on those of Aesop and on beast-stories from other sources which had come to be attributed to Aesop. They are written in verse, in iambic senarii (see METRE, LATIN 2), and their object is two-fold, to give advice and to entertain. They are generally serious or satirical, dealing with the injustices of life and social and political evils, but occasionally they are light and amusing. In general they express patient resignation. Phaedrus observed in the...
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Seriously yours
de Iulia Elize
Porțile sunt toate deschise. Prin ele curge, blând, infinitul, ca și cum fluturii ar ieși, supărați, din rai în rai, părăsindu-le, pe toate, de frică. Să mă ierți, domnule înger, că Alina ți-a...
The Use and Abuse of History
de Friedrich Nietzsche
The Use and Abuse of History (1878) By Friedrich Nietzsche Forward \"Incidentally, I despise everything which merely instructs me without increasing or immediately enlivening my activity.\" These are...
West Running Brook
de Robert Frost
\'Fred, where is north?\' \'North? North is there, my love. The brook runs west.\' \'West-running Brook then call it.\' (West-Running Brook men call it to this day.) \'What does it think k\'s doing...
Þiganul II
de Shalom Ben_Gal
Þiganul II Își pipăie fruntea și o simte arzînd. Piciorul îi este bandajat cu o pînză curată, dar vede că singele a răzbătut prin ea. Ușa se deschide și intră un barbat în vîrstă cu o trusă medicală....
O confirmare incontestabilă - Magdalena Dale în Modern English Tanka
de Corneliu Traian Atanasiu
Modern English Tanka este una din cele mai prestigioase publicații de tanka online pentru autorii de limbă engleză. Publicată în Baltimore, Maryland, USA, ea se află deja la al treilea număr....
the handsome cowboy
de alexei serniakov
once upon a time in the wild west the handsome cowboy had a great time he drank every bottle of whiskey he found in a bar he loved every beautiful women he met in a saloon and he shot everyone said...
incongruențe (5.foamea)
de Petru Teodor
Stau și strecor vântul printre palmele de nisip. Facturile zac teanc pe birou. Câteva vase nespălate în chiuvetă. Geamul plin de gheață. Iar valurile lasă infim gramul lor de sare și de nisip în...
Why so serious?
de voiculescu daniela
a fugi sau a nu fugi... asta este dilema clipei mele. am păcălit moartea cu viața, am păcălit viața cu moartea, ca și cum la naștere... ursitoarele s-au jucat, zurlii, cu un pachet de cărți... le-au...
Diavolul cu infatisare de inger
de Bogdan Nicolae Groza
Un asa-zis inger murdar cu funingine A venit zilele trecute la mine. (Era stirb si avea doua cornite mici,mici de tot Si un pic de cenusa i se vedea pe bot). Arata caraghios;jumatate alb,jumatate...
Amâdoi urâți
de Ioana Ionescu
O liniște indefinită în care sunetele lungi ale tăcerii răsună disonant într-un fracment de partitură cântată la pian. Ne-ndemânarea sună jalnic. Totuși în cameră e o liniște ce se-mparte în...
ma ne na
de angela spinei
azi visele îmi vin peste umeri azi mă lasă fără cuvinte dar colorată îmi adun aripile cerc azi nu mai contează am fost vaccinată am vorbit cu iGod m-a întrebat hei de ce ai nevoie de timp //God:...
De ce minți?
de Sorina Hăloiu
De ce minți, atunci când vrei să fii sincer, Să spui ce gâdești, cu cea mai blândă vorbă? De ce sufletu-ți încarci, secăturii trupul dai... Și când râzi...de ce îți chinui dragă...seriosul? Râzi,...
tête-à-tête, NIG și scriitoarea Theo Anghel
de Nuta Istrate Gangan
Astăzi îmi împart plăcerea și intimitatea unui nou tête-à-tête cu scriitoarea Theo Anghel. Am zâmbit citind. Bineînțeles că am fost google-ită și the woman in me a ieșit la iveală,...