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0.01 secundeMeilisearchG.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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WAWilliam Austin
William Austin (1778–1841) was an American author and lawyer, most notable as the creator of the Peter Rugg stories published in the New England Galaxy in 1824–1827. Austin's stories, constructed as long letters signed with the name Jonathan Dunwell, presented the Rugg story as a long-standing New England legend, about a strong and obstinate man who got lost in a thunderstorm in 1770 and wandered the roads ever afterwards. Austin was born in 1778 in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, where his family had fled after the British burned down their Charlestown house during the Battle of Bunker Hill. He was educated at Harvard College and Lincoln's Inn, London. He married twice, fought one duel with pistols, and had fourteen children. As a young man he served as Unitarian chaplain aboard the USS Constitution. After the Constitution captured a French ship, the salvage proceedings brought Austin $200 and the acquaintance of Alexander Hamilton, who helped the young man begin his legal studies in...
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John Willy Kopperud
It\'s All Over Now, Baby Blue Bob Dylan You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last. But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast. Yonder stands your orphan with his gun, Crying like a fire in the sun. Look out the saints are comin\' through And it\'s all over now, Baby Blue. The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence. The empty-handed painter from your streets Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets. This sky, too, is folding under you And it\'s all over now, Baby Blue. All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home. All your reindeer armies, are all going home. The lover who just walked out your door Has taken all his blankets from the floor. The carpet, too, is moving under you And it\'s all over now, Baby Blue. Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you. Forget the dead you\'ve left, they will not follow you. The vagabond who\'s rapping at your door Is standing in the clothes that you...
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BSBaird T. Spalding
Baird T. Spalding s-a nascut in Anglia intr-o familie de negustori care, timp de trei secole, a facut comert cu India. A fost dus acolo la varsta de patru ani. Inca din tinerete a fost atras de probleme religioase. Dupa efectuarea studiilor, a devenit specialist in mine. La o varsta tarzie s-a hotarat sa publice Vietile Maestrilor, opera sa de capatai. A trecut in lumea umbrelor in 1953, la Tempe, Arizona, la varsta de nouazeci si cinci de ani. Douglas K. Vorss, editorul sau, il cunostea probabil pe Spalding mai bine ca oricine datorita prieteniei lor care dura de ani de zile. Iata un extras din alocutiunea rostita de acesta la 22 martie 1953, la Tempe, la slujba celebrata in memoria lui Spalding: "Spalding era un rabdator si umil slujitor al tuturor celor pe care-i intalnea. Oricare ar fi fost imprejurarile, el nu ingaduia sa fie prezentat auditoriului ca o personalitate ce a realizat lucruri deosebite. Din 1935, am avut sansa unica de a calatori cu el prin mai mult de doua sute de...
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Alexandra Pop
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CCCarlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda (25 December 1925 – 27 April 1998) was a Peruvian-born American anthropologist and author. Starting with The Teachings of Don Juan in 1968, Castaneda wrote a series of books that describe his purported training in traditional Mesoamerican shamanism. His 12 books have sold more than 8 million copies in 17 languages. The books and Castaneda, who rarely spoke in public about his work, have been controversial for many years. Supporters claim the books are either true or at least valuable works of philosophy and descriptions of practices which enable an increased awareness. Academic critics claim the books are works of fiction, citing the books' internal contradictions, discrepancies between the books and anthropological data, alternate sources for Castaneda's detailed knowledge of shamanic practices and lack of corroborating evidence. In his books, Castaneda narrated in first person what he claimed were his experiences under the tutelage of a Yaqui shaman named don Juan...
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LNLassi Nummi
Lassi Nummi (born 1928) considers himself a prose-writer who has strayed into poetry. In a career spanning almost half a century and 25 collections of poetry, his preoccupations, and his central metaphors, have remained constant: landscape, trees, bushes, blades of grass. Interview by Tarja Roinila; poems translated by Herbert Lomas and Anselm Hollo 'During my "social period" I was on the board of the Writers' Union, and its chairman from 1969 to 1972; after that I worked for the Uusi Suomi newspaper and for the PEN Club, whose chairman I was from 1983 to 1988. I was a member of the Bible translation committee for the entire period of its existence, 17 years. A completely different choice would have been to become either a Buddhist or a Christian monk, or then to be a really convinced down-and-out- that might have been the most elegant solution. One could have regulated one's liquid intake, but the freedom of movement would have been pleasant. At the moment I am working out how much...
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GCGu Cheng
Gu Cheng s-a născut în anul 1956, în Beijing, China. În 1969 s-a angajat la o fermă din provincia Shandong. În 1974 s-a întors în capitală, muncind ca tâmplar, vopsitor etc. Din 1985 a devenit redactor de poezie. A publicat mai multe volume de versuri, dintre care două în colaborare cu Shu Ting și Bei Dao, în 1982 și, respectiv, 1983. Engleză Born September 24, 1956(1956-09-24) Beijing, China Died October 8, 1993 (aged 37) Auckland, New Zealand Occupation poet, essayist, novelist Nationality New Zealander (formerly Chinese) Literary movement Misty Poets, modernism Gu Cheng (顾城，1956-1993) was a famous Chinese modern poet, essayist, and novelist. He was a prominent member of the "Misty Poets", a group of Chinese modernist poets. Gu Cheng began life in privilege as the son of a prominent party member. His father was the army poet Gu Gong. At the age of twelve, his family was sent down to rural Shandong because of the Cultural Revolution(as means of re-education)...
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ASAnne Sexton
Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts to Mary Gray Staples and Ralph Harvey. She spent most of her childhood in Boston. In 1945 she enrolled at Rogers Hall boarding school, Lowell, Massachusetts, later spending a year at Garland School. For a time she modeled for Boston`s Hart Agency. On August 16, 1948, she married Alfred Sexton and they remained together until 1973. She had two children named Linda Gray and Joyce Ladd. Poetry and Prose (collections and novels) Uncompleted Novel-started in the 1960s To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960) The Starry Night (1961) All My Pretty Ones (1962) Live or Die (1966) – Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1967 Love Poems (1969) Mercy Street, a 2-act play performed at the American Place Theatre (1969), published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc. Transformations (1971) ISBN 0-618-08343-X The Book of Folly (1972) The Death Notebooks (1974) The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975; posthumous) 45 Mercy Street (1976; posthumous) Anne Sexton:...
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Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti, one of the most important women poets writing in nineteenth-century England, was born in London December 5, 1830, to Gabriele and Frances (Polidori) Rossetti. Although her fundamentally religious temperament was closer to her mother\'s, this youngest member of a remarkable family of poets, artists, and critics inherited many of her artistic tendencies from her father. Judging from somewhat idealized sketches made by her brother Dante, Christina as a teenager seems to have been quite attractive if not beautiful. In 1848 she became engaged to James Collinson, one of the minor Pre-Raphaelite brethren, but the engagement ended after he reverted to Roman Catholicism. When Professor Rossetti\'s failing health and eyesight forced him into retirement in 1853, Christina and her mother attempted to support the family by starting a day school, but had to give it up after a year or so. Thereafter she led a very retiring life, interrupted by a recurring illness which...
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standing ovation
de Valeriu D.G. Barbu
(tremolo) un leagăn pendulează gol o armă cu amortizor fumegă o elevă de liceu își întrerupe sarcina coruri de ave marii acoperă scrâșnetul dinților lui Dumnezeu (andante) peștii au părăsit oceanele...
standing ovation
de Valeriu D.G. Barbu
calificați în meseria de răstignit lumina cu uluitoare frecvență și să primim leafă pe măsură durerea cotată apoi ca emoție la bursa infatuării că avem cu prisosință iubiri confecționate, de serie...
poate așa
de Valeriu D.G. Barbu
bântuie prin lutul însuflețit globule cu șenile și-n calea lor tatuează pereții arterelor cu sloganuri și marșuri triumfale armele sunt chemate la arme orice trup e-o cazarmă totodată și țintă din...
mereu același altceva
de Valeriu D.G. Barbu
la concurență cu Timpul, pretind să ajung oriunde întâiul jumulesc toți cucii din ceasornice și râd – ora fix o anunț la distanță de-un eșec mai devreme, chiar și ultimul loc îl găsesc mereu ocupat...
train to never(again)land
de Andrei Forte
[A] am fost atât de fericit să te văd chiar dacă ne despărțeam trenul a plecat cu un sfert de oră întârziere a așteptat să nu mai plângi mi-a povestit totul despre distanță cât timp am copt în mațele...
punct
de Valeriu D.G. Barbu
pentru un viitor mai bun se demolează în mare parte orașele podurile, vămile pretutindeni lanuri de mine înflorind roșu bogat cerul un spectacol grandios de lumini mușcătoare străzi noi tăind casele...
Simple ones
de Andy
Standing here i long for love Just like a nest waiting for a dove And then you came and give a shine To my rusty heart something divine Since i saw you i began to heal And my wounded soul started to...
Cîntec – Fotografia Number One
de Lucia Daramus
Lucia Daramus Cîntec – Fotografia Number One A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than the giant himself spunea cîndva o zînă ce-și făcuse casa de alabastru la numărul șase...
Pandora’s destiny
de blue
I feel lost in the world, going nowhere, running nowhere, to find what I look for, my love standing there. I have Pandora’s destiny, to love everybody, but never to know what’s her love...
LOVE IS ALL
de sanda deme
LOVE IS ALL YANNI-TRIBUTE LOVE IS ALL YANNI-TRIBUTE Was raining in my heart Falling deep inside of me Drowning in my soul This silence rushes over me I am breath against this fire And I will not turn...