‘To be born…in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not…display(s) a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life.’ ~Wilde.

Who are the alarming mothers of literature, the loving ones, the feckless fathers, the doting ones? We want to hear about them this #BookWormSat

#BookWormSat 'African Myths & Tales'
This collection offers a hefty selection of legends and tales - stories of the gods, creation and origins, trickster exploits, animal fables and stories which entertain and edify. goodreads.com/en/book/show/4…

'We are the miracles that God made
To taste the bitter fruit of Time.
We are precious.
And one day our suffering
Will turn into the wonders of the earth.”

from An African Elegy - Ben Okri #BookWormSat
🎨Wendy Strohschein

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“It is more difficult to love than to die. It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is love. The heart is bigger than a mountain...The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls.”
Ben Okri, The Famished Road

‘It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.’

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
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'The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you or scatter your spirit ...' #BookwormSat

'Nor will I then thy modest grace forget,
Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbringer of Spring,
And pensive monitor of fleeting years!'

William Wordsworth - To a Snowdrop
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'...and the gentle surf foamed on the beach in a chorus of murmurs, as if the sea were sharing secrets with the shore.'
~ Dean Koontz
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#PeaceAndTranquillity

#Art by Albert Chevallier Tayler

“I saw before me a mansion in the Gothic style, all ivied over, and, above the turrets, floated a fingernail moon with a star in its arms.” Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus #BookWormSat 🎨Van Gogh

‘Down the mountain walls
From where Pan’s cavern is
Intolerable music falls.
Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear,
Belly, shoulder, bum,
Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs
Copulate in the foam.’
— W.B. Yeats, ‘News for the Delphic Oracle’ #BookWormSat

🎨W.A. Bouguereau, 1873

'Moon!' you cry suddenly, 'Moon!  Moon!'
-Ted Hughes

🎨Georges Rochegrosse
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'Clouds like the petals of a rose,
Open slowly and disclose
The golden heart of the moon;
The waves grow soft upon the sand,
The wind dies down upon the land,
Beauty and silence weave a tune
Out of the petals of the moon.'

~Alice Corbin Henderson
🎨Christian Schloe
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Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.

Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective

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And when wind and winter harden
All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand.
~ Oscar Wilde
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#Art Snow by Henri Le Sidaner

'the wind had gone, and the clouds had dried up, and the day had been withdrawn, and darkness had come from East and West, and all the sky was filled with the light of white stars.'
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring.
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'Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot?'
~ Bram Stoker, #Irish writer
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#gothic
#Art by Gerald Moira

'Just then the hyena stopped whimpering in the night and started to make a strange, human, almost crying sound.'
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Ernest Hemingway
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Robert Burns: 'My Heart's In The Highlands, 1789'

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,

The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;

Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,

The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

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