'LOVE' : a poem by CZESLAW MILOSZ, Eminent Polish Poet n Nobel-Laureate !

LOVE.
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(a poem by Czeslaw Milosz).
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Love means to learn to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
for you are only one thing among many,
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
Without knowing it, from various ills --
A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.
Then he wants to use himself andthings
So that they stand in the glow of ripeness.
It doesn't matter whether he knows what he serves:
Who serves best doesn't always understand.


Czeslaw Milosz.

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'LOVE' -one of the most famous of CZESLAW MILOSZ'S poems !

LOVE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (a poem by Czeslaw Milosz). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Love means to learn to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things for you are only one thing among many, And whoever sees that way heals his heart, Without knowing it, from various ills -- A bird and a tree say to him: Friend. Then he wants to use himself andthings So that they stand in the glow of ripeness. It doesn't matter whether he knows what he serves: Who serves best doesn't always understand. Czeslaw Milosz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MRITYUNJAY JHA 4F, ADARSH NAGAR SAMASTIPUR BIHAR INDIA. Pin-Code: 848101. +91 9334411390. http://facebook.com/MJ1982M http://twitter.com/MJ1982M

TEN QUOTES OF GEORGE ORWELL ON HIS 110th BIRTHDAY !

TEN QUOTES OF GEORGE ORWELL :-

(1.) ''Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.''

(2.) ''Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.''

(3.) ''Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.''

(4.) ''On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time !''

(5.) ''Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception !''

(6.) ''Four legs good, two legs bad !''

(7.) ''Happiness can exist only in acceptance !''

(8.) ''No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a milli-meter nearer !''

(9.) ''At fifty everyone has the face he deserves !''

(10.) ''All Animals Are Equal, But, Some Are More Equal Than Others !''

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TEN QUOTES ON 110th BIRTHDAY OF GEORGE ORWELL !

TEN QUOTES OF GEORGE ORWELL :-

(1.) ''Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.''

(2.) ''Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.''

(3.) ''Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.''

(4.) ''On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time !''

(5.) ''Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception !''

(6.) ''Four legs good, two legs bad !''

(7.) ''Happiness can exist only in acceptance !''

(8.) WNT advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a milli-meter nearer !''

(9.) ''At fifty everyone has the face he deserves !''

(10.) ''All Animals Are Equal, But, Some Are More Equal Than Others !

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PAULA DEEN,THE CELEBRITY CHEF, WINDS UP HER CAREER DISGRACEFULLY !

PAULA DEEN : FALL FROM GRACE !!
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PAULA DEEN,The American Celebrity Chef ,Who Has Been Ruling Over The Hearts of Millions of Americans Over A Decade Via FOOD NETWORK CHANNEL n Her Brand Outlet In Savannah, GA,USA, Has Sullied Her Image -probably for once n for all !
Thanks to her acceptance during a recent chat that she has had some involvements with racial discrimination for she used to coin racial epithets n had let such racial slurs be allowed at her workplace !

Paula Deen Has Long Been Hailed As A Very Potent Plus Popular Icon In The Art of Cuisine and Has A Great Reach Into The Homes of Millians With Her Recommendations for Recipe, Her Endorsements of Brands , Her Talks on the Food Channel and her own Savannah,ga !

All seem to be in jeopardy !
Her deal with the said tv channel was to be renewed at this month's end ,which appears very unlikely and that would be a major blow to her persona n patronage!

She has not tendered a strong apology so far,albeit she offered it more privately !

Her business will be going great still, yet, that wl not be able to bring her charisma back !

Whenever her name will crop up in future,this episode wl have a substantial impact over that and she wl,despite her great fame so far,be remembered as someone tainted or someone who fell from the grace and did nothing of repairs !


She ought to hv come up with a strong apology via some sit-in with a Oprah or a Robin. . . . .!!

That might hv been some sorts of healing her afro-american fans n allay a general disappointment amongst all who hv almost idolized her for a decade or so !

The outrageous admittance of using racial epithets and the inhuman tolerance of racial slurs plus jokes around her place for such a longtime, is bound to hv its toll,howsoever the majority at social media has been going soft on her n even appealing for the renewal of Mrs. Deen's contract with the Food Network !!


The damage has already been done n the only retrieve for her is to go and try to placate the sheer sense of shock her fans are feeling post her confession !

Redemption Is All Within One's Reach If There Appears Some Inkling of Divine Intervention Even Remote In Sight !!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JEAN PAUL SARTRE !

JEAN PAUL SARTRE, An Eminent Author, Proponent of the Existentialist Philosophy and Activist, Was Born This Day, June 20, in 1905.

Regarded widely as one of the most original thinkers of 20th-cent. , Sartre wrote many books covering literature, philosophy, politics, culture. . .et.al And Many of his creations still attract an amazing numbers of readers, mostly,young people, even after more than 3 decades of his demise!

'NAUSEA' , 'BEING AND NOTHINGNESS' , 'NO EXIT n OTHER PLAYS' are his most popular works that are unanimously considered as the treasure-trove of modern world literature!

The Most Defining Characteristic Feature Of Jean Paul Sartre's Writings Is Their TRANSFORMATIVE EFFECTS ! You can't remain the same once you have read a work of Sartre !
His Was An Author of Sheer Passion and Intensity !

A Born Rebel Was He !
A man who had had the guts of refusing the highest international prize (NOBEL PRIZE) dismissing it as a 'Sack of Rotten Potatoes' !

Sartre's main contribution to our understanding of this existence lies in his iconoclastic probings n re-examinings of Humans and Their Relationship with The Cosmos !

Today Sartre Would Have Been 108 !

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JEAN PAUL SARTRE !

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(1.) ''Man is what he wills himself to be.''

(2.) ''Life begins on the other side of despair !''

(3.) ''You are -- your life, and nothing else !''

(4.) ''Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.''

(5.) ''When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die !''

(6.) ''Commitment is an act, not a word !''

(7.) ''Hell is -- Other people !''

(8.) ''We are our choices !''

(9.) ''Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth !''

(10.) ''Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees !''

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'TRY TO PRAISE THE MUTILATED WORLD' -A POEM BY ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI !

'TRY TO PRAISE THE MUTILATED WORLD'
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Try to praise the mutilated
world.
Remember June’s long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of
wine, the dew.
The nettles that methodically
overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of
exiles.
You must praise the mutilated
world.
You watched the stylish yachts
and ships;
one of them had a long trip
ahead of it,
while salty oblivion awaited
others.
You’ve seen the refugees
heading nowhere,
You’ve heard the executioners
sing joyfully.
You should praise the mutilated
world.
Remember the moments when
we were together
in a white room and the curtain
fluttered.
Return in thought to the
concert where music flared.
You gathered acorns in the park
in autumn
and leaves eddied over the
earth's scars.
Praise the mutilated world
and the gray feathers a thrush
lost,
and the gentle light that strays
and vanishes
and returns.



Adam Zagajewski.

A POEM OF THE POLISH POET,ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI !

'IN STRANGE TOWNS'
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for Zbigniew Herbert
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In strange towns there is an
unknown joy,
the cold bliss of a new glance.
Yellow-plastered tenements
where the sun
climbs like a nimble spider
exist, yet not for me. Not for me
are the town-hall,
port, jail, and courthouse built.
The sea flows through the town
in a salty
tide, sinking cellars and verandas.
At a street market, pyramids of
apples
stand for the eternity of one
afternoon.
And even suffering isn’t really
mine; a local idiot mumbles
in a foreign tongue, and the
despair of a lonely
girl in a café resembles a patch
of canvas in a poorly lit museum.
Huge flags of trees flutter as in
familiar places,
and pieces of the same lead-
weights
are sewn to the hems of sheets,
and to dreams,
and to imagination, which is
homeless and wild.
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By- Adam Zagajewski. (1989).

Translated by Renata Gorczynski
and Benjamin Ivry

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ONE LOVELY QUOTE OF W.B.YEATS !

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

William Butler Yeats

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, W.B. YEATS, THE GREAT IRISH POET & PLAYWRIGHT !

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (W.B.Yeats) , One of the greatest poets of the last century in any language, Was Born This Day, June 13, in 1865 in Dublin,Ireland,to a landowners' family which was also very much fond of arts,especially, Painting (Yeat's Father and Yeat's Elder Brother , were noted painters ) !

Rarely One Could Find Such Variations In Themes, Techniques, Styles of Poetry Compositions In Any Language, As We Find In Yeats' ! His Was A Towering Persona In The World Literature of 20th-Cent. !

Yeats Started Composing Poems During The Last Years of 19th-Cent. And The Perceptible Influences On His Writings Could Well Be Noticed For His Poems Were More Lyrical And Very Romantic In Thematic Aspects! He, During Those Early Days of His Literary Forays, Was Much Influenced By Poets Like Spencer, Shelley and Pre-Raphaelites Poets !

YEATS IS HAILED AS 'THE LAST ROMANTICS' on the basis of his early proclivity towards the Tradition of English Romanticism.

Yeats' Poems Took A Sharp Turn In The Early Decades of 20th-Cent. As He Had Shown Good Deal of Interests In Realism And His Poems Bore Such Transformations.

Yeats Is Also Hailed As THE FIRST MODERNIST !His meeting with EZRA POUND, the american literary godfather who had come from the states and settled down in Paris n London And Had Successfully Changed The Course of Literary Engagements For Once n All, Had Brought Radical Shifts In His Poetry Writings,That Came To Highlight The Modernist Sensibilities -something that reached perfection under ELIOT & JOYCE !

W.B.YEATS GOT THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN 1923--the first Irishman to hv been awarded the Nobel !

Yeats greatly contributed in reshaping the Irish Cultural Consciousness, which was a movement of sorts, aptly termed as THE CELTIC REVIVAL OR RENAISSANCE !

He died at 73 in 1939 and his importance is simply ever lasting!

W.B.YEATS WOULD HAVE BEEN 148 TODAY !
Happy Birthday,YEATS!

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TEN W.B.YEATS QUOTES : -

(1.) ''The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.''

(2.) ''Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing !''

(3.) ''Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet !''

(4.) ''How can we know the dancer from the dance? ''

(5.) ''Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.''

(6.) ''An intellectual hatred is the worst !''

(7.) ''We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.''

(8.) ''The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity !''

(9.) ''In dreams begins responsibility !''

(10.) ''Life is a long preparation for something that never happens !''

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ENGLISH DRAMATIST & POET BEN JONSON WAS BORN THIS DAY IN 1572 !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BEN JONSON, English Dramatist & Poet !

Ben Jonson Was Born This Day , June 11, in 1572 !

His Most Notable Works Are : 'THE ALCHEMIST' and 'VOLPONE or THE FOX'.



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TEN BEN JONSON QUOTES ON HIS 441st BIRTHDAY :-


(1.) ''Follow a shadow, it still flies you !''

(2.) ''As he brews, so shall he drink !''

(3.) ''The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.''

(4.) ''They that know no evil, will suspect none.''

(5.) ''Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not !''

(6.) ''True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.''

(7.) ''Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.''

(8.) ''Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.''

(9.) ''To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.''

(10.) ''Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need !''

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ALMOST NONSENSICAL MUSINGS: TEN QUOTES IN CELEBRATION OF 98th BIRTHDAY OF 'SAU...

ALMOST NONSENSICAL MUSINGS: TEN QUOTES IN CELEBRATION OF 98th BIRTHDAY OF 'SAU...: SAUL BELLOW(1915 -2005). AMERICAN AUTHOR AND NOBEL AWARDEE,SAUL BELLOW,WAS BORN THIS DAY, on June 10, 1915 In Canada !He became as American...

TEN QUOTES IN CELEBRATION OF 98th BIRTHDAY OF 'SAUL BELLOW' ,AMERICAN AUTHOR & NOBEL-LAUREATE !

SAUL BELLOW(1915 -2005).
AMERICAN AUTHOR AND NOBEL AWARDEE,SAUL BELLOW,WAS BORN THIS DAY, on June 10, 1915 In Canada !He became as American Citizen after his family had shifted from Quebec To Chicago When Saul Bellow was still in his teens.SAUL BELLOW & CHICAGO BECAME INTERTWINED! The writer lived mostly in the windy city wherein he studied Anthropology n Sociology At Northwestern University And Wherein He Took To Teaching -a job so dear to him that he remained a lifelong teacher n had taught at various universities.

Saul Bellow Had Served In The US MERCHANT NAVY During The World War II And It Was During That Job He Wrote His First Novel, THE DANGLING MAN -a novel based upon the drafting of young people in the US FORCES during war and the psychological plights that the young people had to endure through war days!

A Jew and That Too An American Jew, Saul Bellow's most notable characters come from the Jewish background,however,the story or the character developments are general in nature!

He, through his novels n stories, presents a bitter critique of the rising tendencies of materialist culture in postwar America and The Urban Landscape Thus Became The Most Suitable Backdrop For The Exploration of CHICAGO LIKE MATERIALISTIC PURSUITS ! Chicago became an inevitable locale for most of his novels,not all !
THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH -a twainesque novel is the best picaresque novel written in the second half of 20th-cent. American Literature!

HERZOG -Bellow's Masterpiece Is Dealing With A Jewish Character, Moses E. Herzog and his sense of disenchantment from everything a man holds to in the course of life And His Such State of Mind Grips Him After His Self-realization That He Is A Grand Failure In Every Role Plus All Aspects of Life!
Bellow's Characters Are Full of Doubts n Disillusionments ,But, They All Are Very Introspecting Varieties That Ultimately Save Them From The Eternal Damnation And Most Importantly, Help Them In Their Redemptions !

Saul Bellow Got The Nobel For Literature In 1976 -the year in which his most notable non-fiction came out, TO JERUSALEM AND BACK ,which records author's firsthand observation of the state of Israel n The Jewish Culture In General !

He also won the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD three times n The Pulitzer Prize amongst others!

Saul Bellow Was To Certain Extent The American Dostoevsky In Terms of The Character-Sketch For His Was The Same As That of Dostoevsky's :CHARACTERS SEEM ENJOYING THEIR SORROWFUL LIFE. . .or,at least, prefer to be engrossed in their often mournful life !
SUFFERING APPEARS AS THE MAINSTAY FOR THEM !!

Saul Bellow Died At The Age of 89 In April 2005 At His Home In Brooklin,Mass.USA !

Today He Would Have Been 98 !
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Let's enjoy ten of Saul Bellow's Quotes On His 98th Birthday !

TEN SAUL BELLOW QUOTES :-

(1.) ''Live or die but don't poison everything !''

(2.) ''Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.''

(3.) "You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it. ''

(4.) ''In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too !''

(5.) ''Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity !''

(6.) ''Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is !''

(7.) ''People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned !''

(8.) ''A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out !''

(9.) ''When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice !''

(10.) Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

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ALMOST NONSENSICAL MUSINGS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THOMAS MANN !

ALMOST NONSENSICAL MUSINGS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THOMAS MANN !: THOMAS MANN, Great German Novelist, Shortstory Writer, Essayist, Critic, Journalist. . . .et.al, Was Born This Day On June 06, 1875 In Lubec...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THOMAS MANN !

THOMAS MANN, Great German Novelist, Shortstory Writer, Essayist, Critic, Journalist. . . .et.al, Was Born This Day On June 06, 1875 In Lubeck, Germany.

Thomas Mann's Most Notable Works Are His Two Novels : 'THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN' & 'DEATH IN VENICE' !
But, Germans Love Mann's Earlier Novel, 'BUDDENBROOKS ' Most Favourably !

Symbolism Was His Mainstay And He Through It Gave Successfully The Psychological As Well As Sociological Edge !

Thomas Mann Won The NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE In 1929.

He Also Won Another Very Prestigious European Literary Prize, 'GOETHE AWARD' In 1949.

Mann Died At The Age of 80, In Zurich, Switzerland, On August 12, 1955 !

Today Thomas Mann Would Have Been 138 !

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Here Are Ten Quotes of THOMAS MANN In Celebration of His Birthday :-


(1.) ''Everything is politics.''

(2.) ''Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil !''

(3.) ''Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present?''

(4.) ''Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated !''

(5.) ''What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises !''

(6.) ''The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life !''

(7.) ''Speech is civilization itself.''

(8.) ''It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death !''

(9.) ''Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.''

(10.) ''A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.''


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THE GREAT SPANISH POET & PLAYWRIGHT, FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ,WAS BORN THIS DAY IN 1898 !

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA, One of the greatest spanish poets and playwrights of the last century (some critics say Lorca as The Greatest Spanish Poet of 20th-Cent.) ,Was born this day,June 05, 1898 In Fuente, Vaquaros,Spain , In a wealthy family of a liberal landowner and a pianist (Lorca's mother was an accomplished pianist and The Poet had a great attachment with her and that helped him gain a rather early exposure to music which was to come in handy when he had started composing poetry in his early 20s and made his poem very lyrical . .) .

With Four Published Dramas Namely, MARINA PINEDA, BLOOD WEDDING, YERMA, HOUSE OF BERNADA ALBA and Various Published Volumes of Poems, Most Notably, THE GYPSY SONG(BALLAD) Lorca Became Internationally Renowned And ,Of Course, Sadly, A Target Of The Repressive Regime of General Francisco Franco That Ultimately Had Cut The Poet's Life Short By Gunshots in 1936 when The Poet Was Just 38 !

Lorca was quite ahead of his time and his writings bear this.
His Was Of A Renaissance Spirit As He Sort of Revived The Traditional Spanish Folktales, Folksongs,Myths n Legends By Incorporating Them In His Poems Plus Plays!

He Was One of The Earliest Exponents of SURREALISM, To Which Lorca Was Introduced By The Famous Painte ,SALVADOR DALI and The Famous Filmmaker, LOUIS BUNUEL, When The Poet Had Shifted His Residence From Granada To Madrid In Late 1920s !

Lorca After His Fame Due To The Gypsy Ballads, Went To New York For Further Study At Columbia University, But Returned Just After A Year or So!He Observed The Citadel of Capitalism,NY And Had Penned Some Poems as well as Prose Pieces On His Stay There!

He Had Enthusiastically Supported The Republicans During The Spanish Civil War And Remained Very Critical of The Nationalist Forces .This Had Cost His Life!

Lorca's Death Remains A Mystery As The Poet Who Never Shied Away From Expressing His Radical Political Views That Had Enraged The Nationalists Endlessly Resulting In The Imprisonment and Murder of The Poet!

His Grave Is Not Located As No Records Certain Regarding The Disposal of The Dead Body Of Lorca After Been Pumped Bullets In Some Deserted Area !

By The Early 1970s , Lorca's Works Were Translated In Many Languages And His Place In The Pantheon of Literary Masters Of The World Got Fixed And Today Lorca Is Hailed As One of The Finest Lyrical Poets In The World Literature!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,LORCA !

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TEN QUOTES OF LORCA ON HIS 115th BIRTHDAY :-

(1.) ''In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world !''

(2.) ''Only mystery makes us live. Only mystery.''

(3.) ''I want to sleep for half a second, a second, a minute, a century, but I want everyone to know that I am still alive, that I have a golden manger inside my lips, that I am the little friend of the west wind, that I am the elephantine shadow of my own tears.''

(4.) ''To see you naked is to recall the Earth.''

(5.) ''There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them !''

(6.) ''I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake.''

(7.) ''We're all curious about what might hurt us !''

(8.) ''At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.''

(9.) ''As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die !''

(10.) ''Never let me lose the marvel
of your statue-like eyes, or the accent
the solitary rose of your breath
places on my cheek at night.
I am afraid of being, on this shore,
a branchless trunk, and what I most regret
is having no flower, pulp, or clay
for the worm of my despair.
If you are my hidden treasure,
if you are my cross, my dampened pain,
if I am a dog, and you alone my master,
never let me lose what I have gained,
and adorn the branches of your river
with leaves of my estranged Autumn.''


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TEN QUOTES OF ALLEN GINSBERG,AMERICAN POET & ACTIVIST,ON HIS BIRTHDAY !

ALLEN GINSBERG,Eminent American Poet and a leading member of the 'BEAT GENERATION' , Was born this day on June 03, 1926 in Newark,NJ,USA .

Today Marks His 87th Birthday And To Celebrate This Occasion , Here Are Ten Popular Quotes of Ginsberg :-
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(1.) ''It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.''

(2.) ''Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?''

(3.) ''Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!''

(4.) ''The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.''

(5.) ''I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers !''

(6.) ''Scientist alone is true poet.''

(7.) ''Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God !''

(8.) ''I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; /''

(9.) ''Sanity - a trick of agreement !''

(10.) ''This is the one and only
firmament; therefore
it is the absolute world.
There is no other world.
The circle is complete.
I am living in Eternity.
The ways of this world
are the ways of Heaven.''


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MRITYUNJAY JHA
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BIHAR
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TOP FIVE QUOTES IN CELEBRATION OF 173rd BIRTHDAY OF THOMAS HARDY !

EMINENT ENGLISH NOVELIST AND POET,THOMAS HARDY WAS BORN THIS DAY,JUNE 02 IN 1840 IN DORCHESTER,ENGLAND !

FIVE QUOTES OF THOMAS HARDY ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 173rd BIRTHDAY :-

(1.) ''Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.''

(2.) ''Fear is the mother of foresight !''

(3.) ''A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.''

(4.) ''The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.''

(5.) ''The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.''


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THOMAS HARDY,ENGLISH NOVELIST & POET,WAS BORN THIS DAY IN 1840 !

THOMAS HARDY, One of The Most Loved Novelists in English Literature Whose Enduring Popularity, Even Almost A Century After His Death, Is Simply Amazing, Was Born This Day On June 02, 1840 In Dorchester,Dorset ,England !

During A Rather Long Writing Life, Hardy Wrote A Dozen Good Novels That Tell Stories of Commonfolks Living In Countryside Leading A Life That Could Throw Shocks & Surprises At The Drop of A Hat, Mishmashing The Whole Edifice of Life That Almost Would Touch The Ruins From Where There Seems No Escape Routes And The Man or Woman of These Stories Becomes Tragic Personage Evoking Pity & Piety In The Hearts of Readers !

An Ardent Lover of Nature Plus Simplicity Informing The Worldview of The Author, Thomas Hardy Later In Life, More Precisely After Having Completed His Last Novel,JUDE, THE OBSCURE, Took To Poetry Writing Which Was His First Love, And Had Composed A Great Numbers Of Them Totalling Nearly 1000 poems !

Hardy As A Major Poet, Got A Big Boost In 1950s & 60s During The Heydays of The Movement Poets Who Had Looked Up At Hardy As Their Role Model !

His Characters Are Interesting To Read As They Often Present Their Life And Its Attendant Problems Plus Platitudes Which Make Us The Readers To Strike A Bond Quickly And THIS IMMEDIACY OF IDENTIFICATION Is A Great Cause Behind His Continuous Appeal Not Only Via The Medium of Novels, But Also Via The Various Cinematic Adaptations and Tv.-soaps !

DESTINY DEVOURS CHARACTER ! The Overpowering Grip of Our Stars Is What Matters For A Character's Life In The Ultimate Analysis!

Happiness Is Merely Episodic In Nature And Life Is Rather Harsh Under The Apparent Venear of Simplicity n Easygoing Feel !
Life Is Governed By Some Mysterious Forces That Could Unsettle You Even When You Have Rather Good Intentions Coupled With Simple Deeds !

TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES is probably his most loved book.
MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, THE RETURN OF NATIVES are his other most popular novels .

A HAPPY 173rd BIRTHDAY TO THOMAS HARDY !


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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARILYN MONROE !

MARILYN MONROE , One of the most talked about female personalities of all time and top rated celebrity who had left a permanent dent in the collective american psyche, Was born this day June 01, 1926 in California,USA!

She lived for just 36yrs ,Yet she was, is and will be the queen of glamour & gliteratti & something of a FEMININE MYSTIQUE in socio-cultural landscape of the states , also of the world outside!

It has been over 50yrs since her mysterious end in 1962 and yet she remains like an industry of sorts due to her popularity that still conjures up volumes of writings, public discourses about the pop culture ,celebrityhood , Hollywood, nexus between Power of Politics and Power of Glamour n things like that !
Rarely a dead person would have been discussed plus idolized so much as Marilyn !

Today The So Called Dumb Blonde of America(. .of course Marilyn was much much more than that. .) Would Have Been 87 !

Let's enjoy ten of Marilyn's quotes to say ,HAPPY BIRTHDAY,MARILYN !


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TEN MARILYN MONROE QUOTES :-


(1.) ''Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.''

(2.) ''A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.''

(3.) ''Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.''

(4.) ''No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.''

(5.) ''Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.''

(6.) ''I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot !''

(7.) ''Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.''

(8.) ''Dogs never bite me , Just humans !''

(9.) ''A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.''

(10.) ''The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.''

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