T.S. Eliot, born on this day in 1888.
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
Leonard Cohen said the job of an artist isn't to create but to receive. A line he used often was: "If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often."
“That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
― Wallace Stegner
#OTD 11 years ago, the world lost the great #SeamusHeaney. This photo is a favorite among our exhibition staff. It's warm and inviting, and that's exactly how Seamus is remembered by those who knew him. Did you ever meet Seamus Heaney? We'd love to read your stories below.
Seamus Heaney's grave at St. Mary's Church, Bellaghy, Co. Derry (his home village - in the same graveyard as his parents, younger brother, and other family members).
(He died on this day 2013.)
As we approach SH's 11th anniversary, here's another chance to listen to @RTElyricfm's wonderful series from 2023, featuring 10 different people choosing and talking about their favourite poem...
https://t.co/ySjxYs6ooF via @rte
“Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Born on this day in 1749)